University of Konstanz
Database & Information Systems Group
Prof. Marc H. Scholl

Web Services and Semantic Web

Web Services Architecture: Concepts and Relationships

Abstract

Web services provide a standard means of interoperating between different software applications, running on a variety of platforms and/or frameworks. This talk is intended to provide a common definition of a Web service, and define its place within a larger Web services framework. The WSA provides a conceptual model and a context for understanding Web services and the relationships between the components of this model. The architecture does not attempt to specify how Web services are implemented, and imposes no restriction on how Web services might be combined. The Web services architecture is an interoperability architecture: it identifies those global elements of the global Web services network that are required in order to ensure interoperability between Web services.

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