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title: "Explain Web Services?"  
description: "Explain Web Services?"  
author: "Rajesh Goswami"  
published: 2010-11-16  
updated: 2020-09-18  
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# Explain Web Services?

Web services are programmable business logic components that provide access to functionality through the Internet. Standard protocols like HTTP can be used to access them. Web services are based on the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), which is an application of XML. Web services are given the *.asmx* extension.

## Answers

### Answer by Rajesh Goswami

Web services are programmable business logic components that provide access to functionality through the Internet. Standard protocols like HTTP can be used to access them. Web services are based on the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), which is an application of XML. Web services are given the *.asmx* extension.


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