 enabling web services  que es un servicio web  a web service allows your site to provide its content and data to other web sites and applications typically the data is transported via http in a serialized machinereadable format  que es la serializacion  serialization is the process of converting complex data structures into text strings so that they can be exchanged and stored the reverse process is called deserialization  json and xml are the two mostcommonlyused data serialization formats for web services  que es la autenticacion basica http  http basic authentication is a method for authenticating requests by sending a user name and password along with the request  que modulos proporcionan servicios web  the following core software modules provide web services json api module exposes entities to other applications using a fully compliant implementation of the json api specification  see managing content structure for more information on content entities and fields modulo de servicios web restful expone entidades y otros recursos a otras aplicaciones utilizando una implementacion rest  los datos se intercambian utilizando un formato de serializacion como json y se transfieren utilizando un metodo de autenticacion como http basic authentication serialization module provides a framework for adding specific serialization formats for other modules to use http basic authentication module provides a way for web services to be authenticated using http basic authentication against site user accounts there are also contributed modules that provide web services recursos adicionales online documentation for the restful web services module online documentation for the json api module comparison of the restful web services and json api modules 