Web Services Glossary
Important Web services terms, courtesy of the World Wide Web Consortium.
August 16, 2004 12:00 PM ET
Computerworld - A recent survey of IT managers showed that about a third have completed one or more Web services projects, and more than a third are either evaluating the technology or doing a pilot project. Are you ready for your own Web services project? Get familiar with the terms and definitions with this Web services glossary, courtesy of the World Wide Web Consortium [www.w3.org]. Definitions A-B | C-G | I-O | P-Se | So-Z References | Acknowledgements
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Editors: Hugo Haas, W3C; Allen Brown, Microsoft (until June 2002)
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This document is a glossary of Web services terms defined and used in the Web Services Architecture
[WS Arch]. It is intended for use by Web services specifications in order to refer to a common coherent framework.
Status of this Document
This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the
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This is a public
Working Group Note of the Web Services Glossary. It has been produced by the
W3C Web Services Architecture Working Group, which is part of the
W3C Web Services Activity. This publication as a Working Group Note coincides with the end of the Working Group's charter period.
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Publication as a Working Group Note does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress. Other documents may supersede this document.
Introduction This document contains a list of Web services terms that are part of a coherent framework defined in the Web Services Architecture
[WS Arch]. The relationships between the terms are defined in the concepts and relationships section of
[WS Arch].
Terms are capitalized when it is meaningful, or otherwise are defined in lowercase.
Some definitions in this document are derived verbatim from external documents. In such cases, the source is indicated as a reference, listed in the
References section.
Definitions
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