The characteristics of web services are:

XML – based:
It is based on XML which is platform independent and effectively runs on all the operating systems and it is LANGUAGE independent.

Loosely coupled:
Loosely coupled is nothing but web service consumers are not ATTACHED directly to the web services. Here, the client and server logic is closely attached to each other.

Coarse-grained:
Coarse-grained facility is provided by it for programs and methods in JAVA.

Supports to Remote Procedure Calls:
Remote procedure calls are supported by web services when the transaction takes place while exchanging documents.

ABILITY to be asynchronous and synchronous:
When the client is interested in executing web services, the facility to bind the client is provided by synchronized. Thus, the service is synchronously used by the client. The client is allowed to invoke web service using asynchronous operations, when the client is interested in executing other functions.

Interoperability:
Without external effort, it offers system to system WORK.

The characteristics of web services are:

XML – based:
It is based on XML which is platform independent and effectively runs on all the operating systems and it is language independent.

Loosely coupled:
Loosely coupled is nothing but web service consumers are not attached directly to the web services. Here, the client and server logic is closely attached to each other.

Coarse-grained:
Coarse-grained facility is provided by it for programs and methods in Java.

Supports to Remote Procedure Calls:
Remote procedure calls are supported by web services when the transaction takes place while exchanging documents.

Ability to be asynchronous and synchronous:
When the client is interested in executing web services, the facility to bind the client is provided by synchronized. Thus, the service is synchronously used by the client. The client is allowed to invoke web service using asynchronous operations, when the client is interested in executing other functions.

Interoperability:
Without external effort, it offers system to system work.