I forgot to mention... Other examples of Web services are infrastructure-level services such as UDDI, a SAML-based single sign-on service, a SAML-based entitlement/authorization service, a digital signature service (see OASIS DSS), an encryption key management service (see W3C XKMS), a billing service, a provisioning service, etc., etc.
Anne > -----Original Message----- > From: rf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 5:17 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: examples > > > I had asked, in november, about example web-services > that are available publicly. Where do web-services > stand today? I would also like to from various users > who are on this mailing list, what kind of services > have you created and how you publicized them? > > thanks. > ~rf > > --- Dennis Sosnoski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Most of the publicly available web services *are* > > toys. Despite the > > ".NET vision" of "The Road Ahead" there doesn't > > appear to be much of a > > *general* business case for web services as revenue > > generators. > > > > Google and Amazon are exceptions that demonstrate > > the rule. In Google's > > case they're making a limited usage form of their > > service available for > > free, with the expectation that if people come up > > with good applications > > they'll either charge for usage or gain revenue some > > other way - it's > > under their control, since the beta license keys are > > only authorized for > > 1000 requests per day. In Amazon's case, they want > > as many people as > > possible to buy from them, and if making their > > catalog and ordering > > system available through a web service adds a tiny > > fraction of a percent > > to their sales they'll have more than justified the > > effort. > > > > The same types of benefits could apply to other > > major commercial > > operations - the airlines, for instance, should have > > web services > > interfaces in place, as should Amazon's competitors > > in the book biz, > > major office supplies vendors, stock brokers, etc. - > > these all have more > > to gain from additional business than from > > restricting users to > > browsers. The credit card processing business would > > be another great > > market for web services, except that they always > > seem to be using > > technology that's a minimum of 10 years out of date > > (my apologies to any > > readers from that industry - I'm baffled and > > frustrated that there's > > still a minimum merchant charge of about $0.40 / > > transaction in these > > days of cheap bandwidth and processing). > > > > Where web services are increasingly important to a > > much broader range of > > companies is for linking B2B applications, including > > B2B applications > > within a company. SOAP is basically just a fluffier > > - and somewhat more > > limited - version of CORBA, after all. These types > > of services are > > generally not public, though. > > > > - Dennis > > > > Dennis M. Sosnoski > > Enterprise Java, XML, and Web Services Support > > http://www.sosnoski.com > > > > RXZ JLo wrote: > > > > >they are all toy services at xmethods and > > salcentral. > > >I am looking for more like Google and Amazon. > > > > > >Thanks, > > >rf. > > > > > >__________________________________________________ > > >Do you Yahoo!? > > >Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site > > >http://webhosting.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ >
