Web architecture, on the other hand, separates the programme into many pieces, each of which is protected by its own security measures, in order to reduce the danger of harmful code.

SOA and web services are frequently conflated, but they are not the same thing. SOA is an architecture that allows developers to combine multiple application services into a larger, composite service.

Every working web developer today is required to understand both the basic principles of REST (the theory) and how they are widely applied in RESTful applications and interfaces (the practice).

Web services standardize the format (XML) and the protocol (SOAP) for application-to-application communication. Such standardization spurs software vendors to create quality applications with ...