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October 16, 2002
Another WS definition
Web Service definition: I am musing over a presentation on web services for an upcoming conference and I wanted to start off with a simple definition of a web service that will be expanded on in the presentation. What do you think of this:
I am a web service if...
- You can ask me what I am capable of
- You can ask me for a description of myself
- I can understand you - regardless of your mother tongue
- You can find out where I am
- You can get to me
The answers then being (respectively): WSDL, XML Schema, SOAP, WSIL/UDDI, HTTP. And yes I do know that there is a lot more to a WS than just these points. That's the point of the presentation :).
Posted by Matthew at October 16, 2002 01:55 PM