What is the difference between remote procedure call and web service
- by xiao
Is there any clear definition about RPC and Web Service? A quick wikipedia search shows:
RPC: Remote procedure call (RPC) is an
Inter-process communication technology
that allows a computer program to
cause a subroutine or procedure to
execute in another address space
(commonly on another computer on a
shared network) without the programmer
explicitly coding the details for this
remote interaction.
Web Service: Web services are
typically application programming
interfaces (API) or web APIs that are
accessed via Hypertext Transfer
Protocol and executed on a remote
system hosting the requested services.
Web services tend to fall into one of
two camps: Big Web Services[1] and
RESTful Web Services.
I am not quite clear what the real difference between the two things. It seems that one thing could belongs to RPC and is kind of web service at the same time.
Is Web Service a higher level representation of RPC?
