In the broadest sense of the term, any process that serves HTTP content is a web service.
SOAP is a subset. However, the highly charged term "Web Services" generally refers to a more structured communication using XML, and protocols such as SOAP, XML-RPC, WSDL, etc .... Ben Tomasini On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 18:13, Sunil Singh wrote: > Hi, > Is there any difference between a soap service and > web service . Do they mean the same. > Thanks, > sunil. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sunil Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 9:45 AM > To: > axis-user-sc.1043301634.iogiedpbpmnemocogcpg-sunil=fast.fujitsu.com.au@x > ml.apache.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: signoff > > > > >