Joel,
On 7.08.08, Joel Schneider wrote:
> Steve White wrote:
> >A user asked me, what are Web Services?
>
> As mentioned in the Wikipedia article, the first sentence of the W3C
> definition for "web service" [1] looks like a reasonable short
> description of the general concept:
>
> A Web service is a software system designed to support
> interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a
> network.
>
How does that statement distinguish Web Services from any other communication
mechanism between machines?
It's like this as a definition of "woman":
A woman is an animal.
Cheers!
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