M.M
M.M

Reputation: 1373

Web services and RPC

Hi I have misunderstanding in the two terms What is the technical differences between Web Service and RPC ? can we consider a WS as a XML RPC and is it a xmlRpc ?

thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 258

Answers (1)

Matt Ball
Matt Ball

Reputation: 359846

Both terms are somewhat vague, and do not refer to specific technologies. Web services can be used to make RPCs using WSDL or one of a few standards which are roughly equivalent, such as CORBA, RMI, or DCOM.

WSDL can be used to describe a SOAP web service, or (in WSDL 2.0) a RESTful one.

Upvotes: 1

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