RE: Is This a Web Service?

+1 to what Jim states.

To me a Web Service requires WSDL and XML.   If WSDL and XML are not 
involved then one could theorize that we have always had web-services once 
CGI's were born.

Rregards,

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Richard D. Chennault

Kaiser Permanente





"Jim Webber" <jim.webber@arjuna.com>
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Roger:

> Do other people think that if it doesn't use WSDL it's not a 
> Web service?  I personally don't like this at all.

Nor do I, but then I have the seemingly contrarian view that SOAP is
implicitly involved :-) (and not necessarily anything to do with the Web).

While I can appreciate that this group does not necessarily have to have a
commercially-facing outlook, we are at risk of marginalisation if the
architecture fragments into X different flavours of Web services. 

Jim