What is webservices in salesforce?

Hi Piyush,

A Web Service is can be defined by following ways:

• Is a client server application or application component for communication.
• Method of communication between two devices over network.
• Is a software system for interoperable machine to machine communication.
• Is a collection of standards or protocols for exchanging information between two devices or application.

There are mainly two types of web services.

• SOAP web services.
• RESTful web services.