XML has started a revolution on the World Wide Web, moving it from static formatted content to dynamic, self-describing information with real semantics. The addition of semantics is only the first step to providing real applications, known as “web services,” to Internet users. The first generation of webservice infrastructure is already under development, and it will allow one web service to issue a request to another and to register/describe/find a service to use (e.g., SOAP [1], WSDL [2], UDDI [3]), thus creating interconnected sets of cooperating web service components.
By: Brent Hailpern, Peri L. Tarr
Published in: RC22184 in 2001
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