Creating Web Services

Creating Web services that can be consumed by different platforms allows ColdFusion to communicate with a client over the Internet. The resulting Web service can expose internal information to the rest of a company’s platforms or to platforms from a partner company that can communicate via the protocols we have previously discussed.

In ColdFusion, we create Web services using ColdFusion Components. We can deploy a prebuilt CFC as a Web service or we can create a CFC specifically for the purpose of deploying it as a Web service. Either way, in order to create and deploy Web services we need to understand the basics of CFCs and how they operate.