Hi Nina, All,

I'm posting it here too:

You can describe it using the car analogy. Was it a car, the web
services would be all the hardware parts of the engine while the wheel
and the pedals would be the application front-end.

A web-service is, simply put, something that works "behind the scenes"
and usually the end-user does not interact directly with it. A
web-service offers an interface to a remote client-machine while a
web-application goes along with a user interface. The communication
between a client application and a web service involves RDF or other XML
documents and/or other low-level elements that are not to be presented
to the end-user or exposed to people in general. A web application
orchestrates these services to provide a user-friendly environment. 

Best Regards,
Pantelis

On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 13:31 +0300, Nina Jeliazkova wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I would like to ask everybody, but especially non-programmers on this list:
> 
> How would you define the difference between web services and a web
> application in non-technical terms ?
> 
> Best regards,
> Nina
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