Defining Web Services
Alexander D. Nakhimovsky, Tom Myers · Apress eBooks · 2004
This book is about consuming, creating, and deploying Web Services. To “consume” means to use a client that communicates with aWeb Service. What are Web Services, and how do their clients communicate with them? Most generally, aWeb Service is a distributed application that exposes public procedures whose input and output conform to a standard, language-independent and platform-independent protocol. The key feature of Web Services is interoperability: they can be invoked remotely over the network by client programs written in different languages and running on different platforms. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.