In an effort to get my head around the notion of services, I am working on my definition of what, precisely, defines a service. Applying the age-old maxim of "When in Rome...," and given that the rome I am in is largely driven by the W3C or Microsoft and IBM, I am going to start with the simplest definition I can think of: a service is a network endpoint that can be described using WSDL that accepts and/or sends messages defined via xml schema. It is hopeful that the messages will be related in some manner.
Posted by: Todd Girvin | 2004.05.11 at 12:36 PM
Posted by: Jef Newsom | 2004.05.11 at 02:26 PM