Web Services benefits
Use of the Web Services architecture provides the following benefits:
* Promotes interoperability by minimizing the requirements for shared understanding
XML-based interface definition language (NASSL), an XML-based service description (WDS) and a protocol of collaboration and negotiation are the only requirements for shared understanding between a service provider and a service requester. By limiting what is absolutely required for interoperability, collaborating Web services can be truly platform and language independent. By limiting what is

