UDDI: Building Registry-Based Web Services Solutions

Chapter 3. Web Services Overview

• A Service

• Web Service Technology Stack

• Web Service Platforms

• A Simple Web Service

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• Document Exchange Model-Based Web Services

• Advanced Topics

• UDDI and the Web Services Paradigm

Web services are a new phenomenon in the computer industry. The concept of a Web service is based on service-based computing which we discuss in Chapter 2.

A Service

Section 2.2.5 provides a business-level discussion about Web services and a corresponding definition. A technical-level definition for Web service requires us to first define a service. The definition of a service as given below is not necessarily precise or all encompassing, but rather a working description of the notion of a service. ...