RE: potential users of web services

could be XML-RPC

If you like to apply the definition strictly, then it got to be SOAP with
HTTP binding only( since we call it "Web" Service ).

The reality is SOAP is one more protocol to consider, but not necessarily
the only protocol for web services. In other words, SOAP( + WSDL  ) is a
sufficient requirement, not a necessary requirement for something to be
called a web service.


Regards,
Sateesh 

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Ballinger [mailto:keithba@microsoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 8:31 PM
To: thomi@di.uoa.gr; www-ws@w3.org; anne@manes.net
Subject: RE: potential users of web services


I tend to agree with what this thread has stated. What do you think of Sun's
claims (evidently) from this Java One session[1]?
 
"Web Services, the session told us, are not necessarily in XML and do not
have to use SOAP, they just describe opening up your internal processes."
 
Seems to me that SOAP and XML are pretty required to be called a Web
service. Otherwise, it's a distributed app, but not the new loosly coupled
thing we are all working on.
 
Thanks,
Keith
 
[1] http://www.webservicesarchitect.com/content/articles/wiggers03.asp 

 -----Original Message----- 
 From: Anne Thomas Manes [mailto:anne@manes.net] 
 Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 5:48 PM 
 To: Hao He; thomi@di.uoa.gr; www-ws@w3.org 
 Subject: RE: potential users of web services 

 +1 

 I was struggling with that word. I was originally going to call it
simply 
 software -- trying not to  imply any level of granularity, but then
I 
 thought -- well, it might actually be implemented using firmware or 
 hardware. So I went with the word component. Perhaps it might be
best to 
 call it a unit of work (although I don't want to imply that it
supports 
 transaction semantics). 

 Anne 

 > -----Original Message----- 
 > From: www-ws-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-request@w3.org]On
Behalf Of 
 > Hao He 
 > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 7:35 PM 
 > To: 'Anne Thomas Manes'; thomi@di.uoa.gr; www-ws@w3.org 
 > Subject: RE: potential users of web services 
 > 
 > 
 > I agree most with Anne except one tiny bit: 
 > 
 > I would say that a web service is a service provided by one or
more 
 > components that exposes 
 > a programmatic interface.  A compoent itself is not the service. 
 > Service is 
 > the functionality that defined in the interface. 
 > 
 > 
 > Hao 
 > 
 > -----Original Message----- 
 > From: Anne Thomas Manes [mailto:anne@manes.net] 
 > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 5:05 AM 
 > To: thomi@di.uoa.gr; www-ws@w3.org 
 > Subject: RE: potential users of web services 
 > 
 > 
 > Thomi, 
 > 
 > Ask five people the definition of "web service" and you'll get 
 > six answers. 
 > 
 > I generally describe a web service as a service that communicates
over the 
 > web. A service is a component that exposes a programmatic
interface. The 
 > service interface must be described; and the service 
 > implementation must be 
 > discoverable. 
 > 
 > When you relate this abstract definition to current technologies,
you can 
 > implement a web service by creating a service that exposes a SOAP 
 > interface, 
 > which is described by WSDL, and which is registered in UDDI. But 
 > I wouldn't 
 > want to use current technologies to *define* the basic concept. I 
 > also don't 
 > think that it's essential to use any of these technologies to
create a web 
 > service. I can certainly create a web service using XML-RPC or 
 > RosettaNet or 
 > a host of other technologies. 
 > 
 > That said, I would concur that web services are intended to be
consumed by 
 > applications rather than humans. But keep in mind that a user
interface is 
 > an application. If I wanted to arrange food for 500 people for 
 > two weeks in 
 > Dubai, I would use a catering application, which in turn uses web
services 
 > to find caterers that can provide services in Dubai. The UI isn't
the web 
 > service. The UI uses web services to accomplish its work. Hence 
 > an ASP page 
 > or HTML form aren't web services, they are an interface to web
services. 
 > 
 > Best regards, 
 > 
 > Anne Thomas Manes 
 > CTO, Systinet 
 > 
 > > -----Original Message----- 
 > > From: www-ws-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-request@w3.org]On 
 > > Behalf Of Thomi Pilioura 
 > > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:09 AM 
 > > To: www-ws@w3.org 
 > > Subject: potential users of web services 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > Hi all, 
 > > 
 > > I'm little confused about the notion of the term "web services".

 > > When I'm reading papers related to UDDI,WSDL,SOAP they present 
 > > web services 
 > > as a new age of distributed computing and as such they are only 
 > useful to 
 > > developers (who are trying to build web applicattions) and not
to the 
 > > end-users. But when I'm reading papers related to DAML-S the
idea I'm 
 > > getting for web services is different. They are also useful to 
 > > end users as 
 > > it shown by DAML-S motivating scenarios: 
 > > 
 > > Web service discovery 
 > > Find me a shipping service that transports goods to Dubai. 
 > > 
 > > Web service invocation 
 > > Buy me 500 lbs. powdered milk from www.acmemoo.com 
 > > 
 > > Web service selection, composition and interoperation 
 > > Arrange food for 500 people for 2 weeks in Dubai. 
 > > 
 > > Web service execution monitoring 
 > > Has the powdered milk been ordered and paid for yet? 
 > > 
 > > There are also numerous papers that use the term service (and
not "web 
 > > service") and are talking about UDDI, WSDL and DAML-S. What's
the 
 > > difference 
 > > between "web service" and "service" if both of them work over 
 > > Internet? For 
 > > example, a search engine (such as google) is a service, but when
it is 
 > > described in WSDL, published in UDDI and can be invoked using 
 > > SOAP becomes a 
 > > web service? Ia a asp or an HTML form a service or a web
service? 
 > > 
 > > In summary which are the potential users of web services (web
service 
 > > providers, developers, end-users)? 
 > > 
 > > could you please shed some light on this? 
 > > regards 
 > > Thomi Pilioura 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 >

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