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'''Web Services''' are usually defined as "''A standard means of interoperating between different software applications, running on a variety of platforms and/or frameworks''" [http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/Activity]. While many possible mechanisms could be found to satisfy this definition, in practice Web Services today (Nov 2007) are commonly implemented using two [[XML]] protcols: [[SOAP]] - the actual message formatting protocol - and [[WSDL]] - the service definition protocol. Again, many low-level transmission mechanisms ''might'' be employed to facilitate the message exchange, but in practice almost all common implementations utilise the [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616 HTTP] protocol and it's [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-9.5 POST] request. | '''Web Services''' are usually defined as "''A standard means of interoperating between different software applications, running on a variety of platforms and/or frameworks''" [http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/Activity]. While many possible mechanisms could be found to satisfy this definition, in practice Web Services today (Nov 2007) are commonly implemented using two [[XML]] protcols: [[SOAP]] - the actual message formatting protocol - and [[WSDL]] - the service definition protocol. Again, many low-level transmission mechanisms ''might'' be employed to facilitate the message exchange, but in practice almost all common implementations utilise the [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616 HTTP] protocol and it's [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-9.5 POST] request. | ||
