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-See
[WSRP
]
+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 the idea that not only humans want to surf the web, but programs want to be able to do so too
. For instance
, Amazon has a lot of information about books,
and provides
ways to sell you books
. Someone else might want
to display information about books on their website (perhaps listing all the books that certain people have written and provide you a mechanism to buy them
). So Amazon have a
[SOAP] interface to let
you find
information about books they sell
.
+F
.ex
, 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
.
