Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud - What is a Web Service?

The video tutorial explains the concept of web services, starting with a basic definition and exploring whether all web applications qualify as web services. It uses a todo application as an example to highlight the challenges of application integration and the limitations of HTML for machine-to-machine communication. The tutorial introduces the W3C definition of web services, emphasizing the need for interoperability, application-to-application interaction, and network communication. It concludes by summarizing the key features that define a web service.

What challenges arise when trying to reuse business logic from a non-web service application?

What are the implications of a web service allowing communication over a network?

In what scenarios can an application be classified as a web service?