“A Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-tomachine 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 SOAPmessages, typically conveyed using HTTP with an XML serialization in conjunction with other Web-related standards.”
H. Haas, A. Brown: Web Services Glossary. W3C Working Draft, August 2003
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Donald Kossmann., Frank Leymann. & Dirk Taubner. Web Services. Informatik Spektrum 27, 113–114 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00287-004-0377-x
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