- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 02:09:30 -0400
- To: Andrew Layman <andrewl@microsoft.com>
- Cc: www-ws@w3.org
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:29:06PM -0700, Andrew Layman wrote: > I believe that the services you cite fit my definition of Web service > quoted below. I could perhaps be more concise: > > A Web service is a computational service, accessible via messages of > definite, language-neutral and platform-neutral format, and which has no > special presumption that the results of the computation are used > primarily for display on a user-agent. > > Hope this works for you. Yup, that's a reasonable definition. I was just pointing out that "Web sites" (Web resources) provide services as valuable as your "typical" Web service. MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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