Abstract
Great development in distance learning has been made in the last two decades facilitated by the rapid evolution of technology, the huge development of computer networks and the large use of internet and personal computers. The World Wide Web with its different web services offers learners and teachers’ new ways of learning and teaching; students can study at their own pace and perform practical tasks remotely. 
 We, at the University of Bordj Bou Arreridj, are involved in the eSience (rESeau maghrébIn de laboratoirEs à distance) project which aims to link three elabs around the Maghreb countries namely Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. The project is coordinated by the University of Bordeaux 1, France with the participation of many European partners. These elabs will propose practical and theoretical teaching units that will be part of their degree program. 
 In this paper we present our university’s platform architecture, focusing on the web interface. First we introduce the service broker, which allows students to communicate and use the various platforms of the network. Second we present the simulation server and give an example of its usage.
Highlights
With the increase of the cost of equipments and software and the development of Internet bandwidth, distance learning becomes more and more important
In this paper we present the architecture of the platform proposed by our university and we will focus on the web interface which permits to students to perform their practical works on the virtual simulator called SMARTSPICE of SILVACO
Almost the entire operation of the service broker is based on the use and implementation of web services, which will allow the communication between all the stakeholders
Summary
With the increase of the cost of equipments and software and the development of Internet bandwidth, distance learning becomes more and more important. It is a new way of learning and teaching; it gives the possibility of gathering many resources and shares their use. This will optimize their usage and reduces their cost. This paper describes the design and development of web services for virtual simulation. The simulation is performed online via our distance learning platform [1] and is done remotely by students from the Maghrebian universities
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