What Are Web Services

Web services refer to software that assists inter-computer data transfer and interoperability. They make segments of business logic available over the Internet. URLs become available to clients when managing web services in an HTTP web server. The conventions used when specifying a URL determine how the server should communicate with web clients.

Web service management involves the following tasks:

• Choosing the types of web services that you want to manage.
• Creating and maintaining those web services

Web services can be created and stored in a SQL Anywhere database.

• Web Service Types
  When a web browser or client application makes a web service request to an SAP Sybase IQ web service, the request is processed and a result set is returned in the response. SAP Sybase IQ supports several web service types that provide control over the result set format and how result sets are returned. You specify the web server type with the TYPE clause of the CREATE SERVICE or ALTER SERVICE statement after choosing an appropriate web service type.
• Web Service Maintenance
  Web service maintenance involves the following tasks:
• Connection Pooling for Web Services
  Each database that exposes web services has access to a pool of database connections. The pool is grouped by user name such that all services defined under a given USER clause share the same connection pool group.