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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 a Web-based (and thus more bloated and more trendy) reiteration or [RPC].
-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.
+[
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
.
