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 On May 31, 2005, at 09:50, Razvan MIHAIU wrote: > However there must be other restrictions for web services. After > reading the other definitions I came up with the following list: > > 1. interoperable between OSes (a message written on one OS should be > easily readable on another); this seems to imply the use of XML; what > other technology can achieve this ? If you only need to transfer a couple of simple values (a status code or an URL), UTF-8-encoded plain text with one value per line would work. > 2. it must be an open standard (issued by Oasis or W3C); this > restriction should rule out any "cgi, ejb, perl/php script" as a web > service; you could have a cgi acting as a web service but only if it > works according to a certain open protocol (this leads us to the next > restriction) I don't think homegrown XML vocabularies over HTTP in RESTian services or objects based on homegrown classes over SOAP are excluded. A RESTian Web service moving FooML documents back and forth fits the "any CGI" scenario, and I'd still consider it a RESTian Web service. > 3. it must have an open interface (e.g. it must work according to a > certain protocol); as I read in another reply there are at least 3 > protocols to match this criteria: SOAP, REST, XML-RPC Except REST isn't a protocol. The only commonalities I can come up with are: 1) HTTP is involved. 2) The service is not designed to be used with a browser showing the service URL in the location bar. (However, browsers can act as Web service clients using XMLHttpRequest.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@i... http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ 
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