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-WebServices are a way for programs to talk to each other via the Web. In essence, they're a Web
-based (and thus more bloated and more trendy) reiteration or
[RPC].
+WebServices are a way for programs to talk to each other via the [
Web]
. In essence, they're an [HTTP]
-based (and thus more bloated and more trendy) reiteration of
[RPC]. They are a rarity on the open web; the bonmot goes that “there are more [SOAP] implementations than there are WebServices on the open web.”
-For example,
[Amazon] has
a lot of information about books and ways to sell them. If someone wants to
display specific information about books on their website
(perhaps listing all the books they
authored) they can use the [SOAP] interface provided by [Amazon] to present you with
information about these books, synchronized
with the database at [Amazon].
+Probably the most well-known specimen is
[Amazon]’s [SOAP] [API], which offers
a lot of information about books and ways to sell them, so you can
display specific information about books available at [Amazon]
on your own WebSite
(perhaps listing all the books you
authored). This
information will remain in sync
with the database at [Amazon].
