13.5. Service Description

Service description is one of the most important concepts that e-Speak brought to the industry. Service description is at the core of the service-centric computing and the dynamic interaction. E-Speak provides the following types of service description attributes:

  • Formats of exchanged business documents: In e-Speak, text attributes, and under the DEM model, the XML DTD and XML Schema languages are used to describe business documents. The SFS also describes some standard formats for documents that provide “horizontal” services, such as querying an e-service for its public interface.

  • Service signatures: E-Speak offers an e-services infrastructure to provide a mechanism for querying the public interfaces of services and ...

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