Selling Web Services
Mike Clark · Apress eBooks · 2002
The term “Web Services” though applicable to any service offered on the Internet such as hosting, development, credit card checking, etc., has been adopted to describe a new phenomenon of computer-to-computer interaction using XML, and standard internet protocols such as HTTP. Normally, running an application on a remote computer system is difficult and time consuming because of the various operating systems and developers that you need to contend with. During the last two years, however, many leading vendors have agreed upon a standard that allows one computer system to run applications on a second by passing simple text messages between the two