Web Services
Built on industry standards, Web services technologies allow applications to interoperate
across programming languages, platforms, and operating systems.
Advantages
Web services technologies can provide ease of development and deployment
advantages.
A Web service can:
- enable client programs to call your program remotely
- launch your program via a Web browser
- load balance parallel codes or many runs of code that you want to enable your collaborators to run
Web Portals
Web services are a framework technology that can be used to build computational and data Web portals.
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