1. Introduction


What is a Webservice?

A Webservice is a Service, which is especially used for Machine-To-Machine-Communication. It has as every Website a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), which is the unique address to refer to it. The data saved there is not really human-readable or eye-friendly for the common internet user. It is designed for special software, which have to refer to it as a source.

There are two important Webservices, which are widely used over the Web:


   SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
   REST (Representational State Transfer)