Here are the important pros/benefits of using web services:
- Offers faster communications within and across organizations
- Each service exists independently of other services.
- Interoperability has the highest priority.
- Using Web services, your application helps you to publish its message or function to the rest of the world.
- Web services help solve interoperability issues by giving different applications a way to link their data.
- Web services help you to exchange data between different applications and different platforms.
- It allows applications to communicate, exchange data, and shared services among themselves.
- Web services are specifically designed to be used as a web page request and help you to receive data.
- It serves as building blocks which makes it easy to reuse web service components in other services. Web Services are deployed on internet standards such as standard Apache, and Axis2. It provides WSDL, HTTP, driven services.