it's a classic case of industry buzzwords. the best approach is to have people give their definition of the term before assuming anything.
EAI is another... app integration could be done any number of ways, but EAI usually implies that you use an integration broker middleware On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:23:03 -0700, Mike Oliver wrote > 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 > > > > > > > > > >
