Using web services for remote data access and distributed applications

This paper presents the use of web services for accessing data and building distributed applications. Currently, such an application is constructed for numerical calculations of dipole matrix elements between bound–bound, bound–free and free–free states belonging to complex atoms, used in the evaluation of effective oscillator strengths averaged over the continuum, position of high Rydberg states with large angular quantum number. A data access service exposes the atomic data from the database in a system independent and auto descriptive format offering methods for data filtering and sorting.