Ben is exactly right, and big companies use marketing hype to blur the use of the terms, everyone from Adobe to Oracle have stated they use/have "Web Services" and they aren't necessarily talking about SOAP.
Michael Oliver AppsAsPeers LLC 7391 S. Bullrider Ave. Tucson, AZ 85747 Phone:(520)574-1150 Fax:(520)844-1036 -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Tomasini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 4:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: give your views 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 > > > > >
