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| Q: What are Web services? |
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| Q: Are SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI Web services? |
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| Q: What is the role of XML in relation to Web services? |
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| Q: Why is there a need for Web services? |
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| Q: Are Web services platform independent? |
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| Q: Is Java a prerequisite for Web services? |
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| Q: Is there a rational explanation as to why the widespread adoption of Web services has been much slower than expected? |
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| Q: Has a killer application for Web services been identified as yet? |
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| Q: What are UDDI, SOAP, and WSDL? |
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| Q: What are the salient characteristics of Web services? |
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| A: Web services are a new genre of Web-specific software component methodology that deal with modular, self-contained, self-describing software components whose public interfaces are described using XML. Hence, one can build applications by reusing or assembling existing components from within and outside of an enterprise. Thanks to Web services, these applications will be able to cross systems, programming language, and platform boundaries. New applications being developed can obtain software functionality in the form of Web services. All data transfers that occur between applications and the Web services they invoke are in the form of XML documents that are exchanged using a messaging mechanism with SOAP being the preferred and recommended messaging scheme. |
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| A: No. These are enabling technologies that are used by Web services. Web services are software components that solve... |
