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Re: Web Service Definition

From: Dan Gunter <dkgunter@lbl.gov>
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 06:46:01 -0800
Message-ID: <3C8388A9.3040104@lbl.gov>
To: www-ws-arch@w3.org 
To me, what seems most notable about web services is what they are not, i.e. unlike CORBA they don't mandate an object model, unlike Java they don't require a programming language or VM, etc. Maybe mentioning what a web service is _not_ required to be, as part of the definition, would help clarify somewhat, and it may also help solidify its relation to the rest of distributed computing.  

Thanks, 

Dan Gunter
Received on Monday, 4 March 2002 09:45:48 GMT

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