Technologies used to create webservices

How many types of technologies/frameworks are used to create web services? I know only of Java and .Net frameworks. Are th开发者_运维百科ere any other technologies that support creation of web services?

Nearly any technology/language that can be used on a web server can be used to provide a web services API. Take your pick - Perl, Python, Ruby, C, PHP, and so on...

Java and .NET may be among the most popular, but that's more a function of how widespread their usage is in general. If you're building a site using PHP, Python, or Ruby then it makes sense to use that same language and share code between the web site and the web services (authentication, data access, business logic, etc).

Provided the language is available to respond to server requests, it's just a matter of accepting input in an accepted format and supplying the output in an expected format (XML, JSON, etc).