You have the option to publish page, query, and codeunit objects as web services in Dynamics NAV when you navigate to the web services page.
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Pages and queries are published as ODATA web services and pages and codeunits are published as SOAP web services.
What is a web service?
A web service, in terms of Dynamics NAV, or a SOAP web service, is a program that publishes business logic to the outside world and an ODATA web service can be considered as a data source so that the outside world can access your data in a uniform and self-described manner.
SOAP and ODATA are the protocols that are used for different types of web services.
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More information about Dynamics NAV and web services is available here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd355398(v=nav.80).aspx
You publish Dynamics NAV business logic to the outside world with SOAP web services so that you can reuse it in other development environments.
For example, when you are developing an application using...