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From: "Eric van der Vlist" <vdv@d...> > "A Web service is a software system identified by a URI [RFC 2396], > whose public interfaces and bindings are defined and described using > XML. Its definition can be discovered by other software systems. These > systems may then interact with the Web service in a manner prescribed by > its definition, using XML based messages conveyed by Internet > protocols." versus > "A Web service is a software system identified by a URI [RFC 2396]." "Web services" are not just CGIs, so I think Eric's definition is not really enough. The point about web services is that they provide some metadata that allows you to find or use them: for example, that they may advertise or have schemas. So that some software can say "I want to find a certain service" or some other software can also say "tell me what format/schema is being used." Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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