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Differences between Web services and Web applications

What are the differences between Web services and Web applications?

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Web services are services with standard interfaces that just expose a behavior. Web applications are full blown browser-based applications that also include an interface. Web services are granular (specific well-defined functions). Web applications are complete holistic functions that are bound into a single application.

This was first published in October 2004

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