Re: Web service definition
"Christopher B Ferris" <[email protected]>
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Works for me. Christopher Ferris Architect, Emerging e-business Industry Architecture email: [email protected] phone: +1 508 234 3624 [email protected] wrote on 08/13/2002 09:21:29 AM: > > On Tuesday, August 13, 2002, at 02:29 AM, Krishna Sankar wrote: > > Agreed, artifact might not be *THE* scientific term. By XML > > artifacts, one could mean DTD or Schema or WSDL (which itself is an XML > > fragment or ... - "stuff" might be the most nearest non-scientific > > term. > > Well, I think I'd prefer "documents" to "stuff". However, > why do we need another noun in there at all? Why not simply: > > Definition: > A Web service is a software application identified by a URI, whose > interfaces and bindings are defined and described using XML. Its > definition can be discovered by other software applications. These > applications may then interact with the Web service in a manner > prescribed by its definition, using XML messages conveyed by > internet protocols. >