A web services development platform and a method therefore is provided. The web services development platform comprises a central repository having stored therein a set of templates related to web services. The web services development platform further comprises a server including a processing system and a memory device. The memory device has instructions stored thereon that cause the processing system to perform operations comprising receiving a web service request from a user; selecting one or more templates from the set of templates based on the web service request; stringing the selected one or more templates to generate a cascaded template; and deploying the generated cascaded template in the form of an application programming interface (API) configured to establish communication with one or more of an external database and an external application.