Web Services

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Author(s): Kevin Curran (University of Ulster, Ireland)and Padraig O’Kane (University of Ulster, Ireland)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 6
Source title: Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mario Freire (University of Beira Interior, Portugal)and Manuela Pereira (University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch097

Keywords: Computer Science & IT / Information Science Reference / Internet Technologies / Web Technologies

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The term “Web services” was initially employed by Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Orlando, Florida on July 12, 2000. Fundamentally, the term refers to automated resources accessed via an Internet URL. However, a more comprehensive definition is that of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)1, which declare Web services as “providing a standard means of interoperating between different software applications, running on a variety of platforms and/or frameworks.” An Internet connection allows retrieval of software-powered resources or functional components and is therefore regarded as an extension of the World Wide Web infrastructure. Web services represent the evolution of a human-oriented utilization of the Web to a technology that is application driven. It attempts to replace human-centric searches for information with searches that are primarily application based (Staab, 2003).

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