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.