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Difference between webservice and service operation

 
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Hi
I am new to web services and soa. In one of the interviews I was asked the difference between webservice and service operation. Please help me in getting correct understanding.
 
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Hi Kavitha,

Welcome to the Ranch

It would be great if you have shared your thoughts on the same!!

As per my understanding, service is a functionality and when it is exposed over Web (via SOAP Protocol) it is called as a Web Service - where it is eligible to be accessed in a platform neutral fashion. You can better read about Web Service here -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_service
 
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Raghavan Muthu wrote:Hi Kavitha,

Welcome to the Ranch

It would be great if you have shared your thoughts on the same!!

As per my understanding, service is a functionality and when it is exposed over Web (via SOAP Protocol) it is called as a Web Service - where it is eligible to be accessed in a platform neutral fashion. You can better read about Web Service here -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_service




How you define an operation? what is the difference between an operation and a service?
 
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My response would be that "service" is the method in the servlet API that gets first look at incoming requests and handles dispatch of the request and response objects to the correct HTTP method. All web service calls go through the service method.

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