in reply to OT: Webservices

Most likely, that someone means some kind of service is offered via HTTP (which could be a simple static document, HTTP forms, a complex Java program, or something else), although HTTP is just one of many protocols that make the Web (but most people don't realize it).

But this has nothing at all to do with Perl.

Abigail

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Re: Re: Webservices
by pg (Canon) on Jan 12, 2004 at 02:47 UTC
    "Most likely, that someone means ..."

    Most likely NOT! web serive is a formal terminology that has its well defined meaning. Today, most of the IT people knows what web service is.

    "But this has nothing at all to do with Perl"

    I am not sure whether you are thinking of Java, but web service is not owned by any specific language. The service could be provided by a component written in any language, obviously including Perl. So Perl is related to web service.

    Here is the official definition given by W3C:

    "A Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. It has an interface described in a machine-processable format (specifically WSDL). Other systems interact with the Web service in a manner prescribed by its description using SOAP-messages, typically conveyed using HTTP with an XML serialization in conjunction with other Web-related standards."
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      The service could be provided by a component written in any language, obviously including Perl. So Perl is related to web service.
      General ledger software can be written in Perl. I am glad to hear I can ask my questions about the requirements for a financial statement here.
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      Most likely NOT! web serive is a formal terminology that has its well defined meaning. Today, most of the IT people knows what web service is.
      Well, I doubt most people claiming to be an IT person know the formal definition of 'webservices'. However, that's beside the point. The OP spoke of 'someone', without any indication that the 'someone' had anything to do with IT.

      Abigail

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      I can't help but think that more often than not, you open your mouth with nothing to say. I see no problem with what Abigail-II said, and in fact in the W3C spec that you gave, it says:
      ...typically conveyed using HTTP...
      Which is not really that different, is it?
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