Web Services and You

A Web service is a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the internet.

In a Web service, Web technology such as the HTTP, is utilized for machine-to-machine communication, more specifically for transferring machine readable file formats such as XML and JSON.

{
   "user1" : {
      "name" : "mahesh",
	  "password" : "password1",
	  "profession" : "teacher",
	  "id": 1
   },
   "user2" : {
      "name" : "suresh",
	  "password" : "password2",
	  "profession" : "librarian",
	  "id": 2
   }
}

GET	This is used to provide a read only access to a resource.
PUT	V
DELETE	This is used to remove a resource.
POST	This is used to update a existing resource or create a new resource.

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