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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.”
-[Amazon] offers a lot of information about books and ways to sell them via a [SOAP] interface
, 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].
-
-[Google] let you use their search engine programmatically by way of a [SOAP] interface.
-
-There are many more examples
.
+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].
