November 2003
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
11h 59m
English
book
Lotus Instant Messaging/Web Conferencing (Sametime): Building Sametime Enabled Applications
by John Bergland, John Barrow, Jonas Covey, Washington Cabral, Carl Tyler, Yafit Sami, Rob Novak
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84 Lotus Instant Messaging/Web Conferencing (Sametime): Building Sametime-Enabled Applications
4.1 Overview of Web services
As you may already be well aware, Web services have gained tremendous
interest and coverage in the IT industry in recent years. There have been many
books published on the topic, so we do not attempt to cover the complete
spectrum of Web services in this chapter. We do, however, give a brief
introduction, so you may gain an understanding as to why you may want to use
Web services.
4.1.1 What is a Web service?
A widely accepted definition for a Web service is:
“A self-contained, self-describing, modular application that can be published,
located and invoked across the Web.”
Web services enable the creation of applications ...