Re: Re: Webservices

"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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Re: Re: Re: Webservices by ysth (Canon) on Jan 12, 2004 at 03:18 UTC
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.	[reply]
Re: Webservices by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jan 12, 2004 at 10:23 UTC
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	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Webservices by Anonymous Monk on Jan 12, 2004 at 13:24 UTC
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?	[reply]