Web services mechanism is a facility that supports SOA (Service Oriented
Architecture) - a modern standard for application and information system
integration.
1C:Enterprise 8 system can act as a Web-service provider, as well as
a client of Web-services published by other providers.
In order to add the capability to provide 1C:Enterprise 8 functionality
through Web-services a Web-service configuration object was implemented. For
interaction with Web-services published by other providers a WS-reference
configuration object was implemented, also a range of other script language
objects.