Re: Etymology of "web service"

I think the Web part comes from the observation that the technologies
used underneath Web services are the same technologies that made the WWW
possible: loosely-speaking DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP and XML (which is
similar to HTML but more suited for extensible, structured data
exchange).  Also the observation that the result could be a web of
dynamically interacting services.  

The name has caused or permitted a fair amount of confusion, because,
while the name captures some of the similarities to the WWW, it also can
be used to make sound plausible some pretty off-base claims such as
"Broadly defined, a Web service is any service delivered across the
Web".

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Hinson [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:27 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [SOAP] Etymology of "web service"

Andrew Layman wrote:

>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.
>

It's interesting that the definition says nothing about the web.  I've
always wondered why they're called *Web* services.

--Chuck

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>
>-----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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