Re: Web Service Definition from Dan Gunter on 2002-03-04 (www-ws-arch@w3.org from March 2002)

From: Dan Gunter <dkgunter@lbl.gov>
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 06:46:01 -0800
To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
Message-ID: <3C8388A9.3040104@lbl.gov>

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 UTC