http://www.openlinksw.com:443/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?id=49WWW2003 -- day two Facts and figures about WWW2003; W3C standards update; progress report on 802.11b-enabled community coverage. [via Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs] A Web service is a software system identified by a URI, whose public interfaces and bindings are defined and described using XML. Its definition can be discovered by other software systems. These systems may then interact with the Web service in a manner prescribed by its definition, using XML based messages conveyed by Internet protocols. Hugo Haas, W3C As result of the above Web Services enable browserless consumption of services available at a URI. Good examples being the ability to purchase a book, CD, or any other item from Amazon without browser based interaction with the Amazon site (URI: http://soap.amazon.com/schemas2/AmazonWebServices.wsdl and UDDI Discovery URI: http://uddi.microsoft.com/discovery?businesskey=bfb9dc23-adec-4f73-bd5f-5545abaeaa1b) . Further reading: W3C Web Services Architecture Draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-arch/W3C Web Services Glossary: http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-gloss/Thu, 22 May 2003 14:13:52 GMTVirtuoso Universal Server 08.03.3335Kingsley Uyi Idehenhttp://www.openlinksw.com:443/weblog/public/images/vbloglogo.gifhttp://www.openlinksw.com:443/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?id=49I have seen the future and it's full of Linked Data! :-)8831