- From: Walden Mathews <waldenm@optonline.net>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 22:58:07 -0400
- To: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>, John Crupi <John.Crupi@Sun.COM>
- Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
> > > > 2. "A Web service is an interface to an executable software agent..." > > >> Are we saying a web service is not a service, but is an > > interface. Isn't a web service a service with an exposed interface? > > I addressed this in a reply to Walden M. > Partly. But it's kind of like saying that your car is an interface to the engine and drive train. Technically, there's only part of the car that comes in contact with the driver and passengers, and it does bridge between them and raw locomotion, but it seems like an over-analysis. A service is there to serve, not to "interface", even when you think "interface" in this concrete sense. Take some legacy system and put it on the web. Is the web service just the part that messes with uri and markup stuff, or is the whole shebang now a web service. I think the latter. On the other hand: take some legacy system and put it on the web: you just did it a big favor; you gave it "web service". In the nomenclature of cosmetology, that's an *interface-lift*. I go to bed now, Mike. Walden
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