Web Service
Trace
A WebService is a SoftwareComponent? that is accessible at some location, usually on the Internet or a LAN, and provides a service to a client, as opposed to a SoftwareComponent? installed on a local computer.
Standard for invoking WebServices:
Related topics
- Service Oriented Architecture?
Resources
Organizations
- http://www.ws-i.org/ -- WebService Interoperability
- WSCC -- Web Services Competence Center
Implementations
- http://java.sun.com/webservices/ -- Java and WebServices (J2EE? )
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices -- MSDN XML WebServices Home (Microsoft .NET)
- http://www.xmlsoftware.com/
News, information, communities
- http://webservices.xml.com/ -- O'Reilly webservices.xml.com
Publications
Component Software?
The endless struggle for perfect teminology (preface to the second edition, page xvii):- "A service is an instance-level concept - where such instances can be component instances. These instances are `live` and thus require grounding in concrete hardware, software and organizational infrastructure."
- "I used the term `web service` when referring to a service that is concretely provided"
- "XML web services - a subset of web services that relies on XML as the fundamental representation format"