Re: Etymology of "web service"

Andrew Layman <[email protected]> Wed, 6 Nov 2002 09:32:27 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.soap.general
Message-ID <9B9A5456AFE99E4181416B252F63BDA207C4BA79@red-msg-05.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>
Etymology won't tell you what a web service is.  The concept is not a
simple consequence of the two words.  Definition: A web service is an
interoperable computational service, specified in terms of protocols
(the messages it receives and sends), language-neutral,
platform-independent, using XML and SOAP, and based on
computer-to-computer message exchange without the assumption of a human
as the immediate processor of the messages.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sam [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 6:47 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [SOAP] Etymology of "web service"

I was curious to see if anyone knew the origin of the term
"web service" . Trying to see if I can get the etymology behind it.

Thanks
/s

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