Chapter 8. Taking Stock of Web Services
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins. | ||
| --Ulysses S. Grant | ||
One should not deny or try to dodge the fact that the jury, in terms of market penetration, is still out when it comes to Web services—even as we approach 2004. That is a sad and unexpected fact. This is not to say that Web services have not happened. Web services are available and are being used, albeit in the case of corporate deployments, primarily on an intranet/extranet basis. But there are also publicly available Web services. These adhere to the original vision of the serve yourself software smorgasbord on the Web.
Google, for example, as shown in Figure 8.1, offers ...
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