Re: [DotGNU]Defining Web Services

[Norbert Bollow]

> In the spirit of our discusion on "what is a
> WebService", I found the following.  It is one of the
> more well developed definitions I'v found.  What are
> your thoughts?

> http://www.PerfectXML.com/Xanalysis/TSG/WebServices.asp
> 
> >From the article:
> 
> "What are web services?
>  Web services are a group of closely related, emerging
> technologies that describe a service-oriented,
> component-based application architecture that is based
> on an open, Internet-centric infrastructure. Web
> services represent a model in which discrete tasks
> within e-business processes are distributed widely
> throughout a value net. Web services components can be
> recombined by other companies to meet the needs of
> their own software applications or business
> processes."

In my opinion this is not useful at all as a definition,
because it uses so many words that difficult to define
precisely.

Greetings, Norbert

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