What's the difference between web server and web service?

Question

I would like to know the difference between obtaining the data by purchasing reports from the local web server and by obtaining it via web services.

Answer 1

web server is a system which will keep all the webpages live in running state by taking request and gives response to the user as per his commands and inputs.

web service is like yahoo, google r providing services to the users, ppl will utilize the service and complete their works.

Answer 2

They are totally different concepts:

Web server: a process that enables the use of the HTTP protocol. For example Apache HTTPD:

http://httpd.apache.org/

Web service: A service, usually invoked through the use of programming code, that uses HTTP as the underlying protocol, therefore it is necessary *at least* to have a web server.

Answer 3

Web Server is a program which accepts HTTP requests and respond by giving HTTP responses.

Web services is a software system developed to help machine to machine interaction.

Answer 4

web server is actually a computer wich acts as server and gives the information or data to the client..

webservice is actually a service or function , (eg: a calculator function, a calender, a JTRAC(www.jtrac.info).. etc.,), wich can be used by the clients to perform its operations..