What's A Web Service?
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A service with a contract.
Really a set of local "laws". |
- a possibly remote procedure with an
- invocation that is described in a standard
(preferably XML-based) machine readable syntax
- reachable via standard Internet protocols
- including at a minimum a description of the allowed
input and output messages, as well as
- possible semantic annotation of the service function and data meaning.
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