What are Web services?

Subscribe (Full Service)


	Search: The ACM Digital Library The Guide

	Feedback

What are Web services?

Full text

Html (6 KB), Pdf

Pdf (65 KB)

Source

Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 46 , Issue 6 (June 2003) table of contents
E-services: a cornucopia of digital offerings ushers in the next Net-based evolution

SPECIAL ISSUE: E-services table of contents

Page: 31

Year of Publication: 2003

ISSN:0001-0782

Authors

Christopher Ferris	IBM
Joel Farrell	IBM, Research Triangle Park, NC

Publisher

ACM New York, NY, USA

Bibliometrics

Downloads (6 Weeks): 17, Downloads (12 Months): 275, Citation Count: 26

Additional Information:

abstract cited by index terms collaborative colleagues

Tools and Actions:	Request Permissions Review this Article Save this Article to a Binder Display Formats: BibTeX EndNote ACM Ref

DOI Bookmark:	Use this link to bookmark this Article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/777313.777335 What is a DOI?

ABSTRACT

A Web service, as defined by the W3C Web Services Architecture Working Group, is "a software application identified by a URI, whose interfaces and bindings are capable of being defined, described, and discovered as XML artifacts. A Web service supports direct interactions with other software agents using XML-based messages exchanged via Internet-based protocols."¹ Others refine this definition further by requiring the description be a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) document and the protocol be SOAP.

CITED BY 26

	Jeffrey Gortmaker , Marijn Janssen , René W. Wagenaar, The advantages of web service orchestration in perspective, Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Electronic commerce, October 25-27, 2004, Delft, The Netherlands
	Xiaogang Li , Gagan Agrawal, Efficient evaluation of XQuery over streaming data, Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Very large data bases, August 30-September 02, 2005, Trondheim, Norway
	Qian Candy Tang , Hsing Kenneth Cheng, Optimal location and pricing of web services intermediary, Decision Support Systems, v.40 n.1, p.129-141, July 2005
	J. Leon Zhao , Hsing Kenneth Cheng, Editorial: web services and process management: a union of convenience or a new area of research?, Decision Support Systems, v.40 n.1, p.1-8, July 2005
	Leticia R. Rheinheimer , Junior M. Martins , Sérgio Crespo C. S. Pinto, WSAgent: an agent based on web services to promote interoperability between heterogeneous systems in the health domain, Companion to the 19th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications, October 24-28, 2004, Vancouver, BC, CANADA
	Liping Liu , Qingxiong Ma, The impact of service level on the acceptance of application service oriented medical records, Information and Management, v.42 n.8, p.1121-1135, December 2005
	Jia Zhang, A mobile agents-based approach to test the reliability of web services, International Journal of Web and Grid Services, v.2 n.1, p.92-117, February 2006
	José Geraldo R. Junior , Glauber Tadeu S. Carmo , Marco Tulio O. Valente, Invocation of replicated web services using smart proxies, Proceedings of the 12th Brazilian symposium on Multimedia and the web, November 19-22, 2006, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
	Jonghun Park, A high performance backoff protocol for fast execution of composite web services, Computers and Industrial Engineering, v.51 n.1, p.14-25, September 2006
	Y. Rezgui, Role-based service-oriented implementation of a virtual enterprise: A case study in the construction sector, Computers in Industry, v.58 n.1, p.74-86, January, 2007
	Kevin Bierhoff , Mark Grechanik , Edy S. Liongosari, Architectural Mismatch in Service-Oriented Architectures, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Systems Development in SOA Environments, p.4, May 20-26, 2007
	Pierpaolo Vittorini , Stefano Necozione , Ferdinando di Orio, Towards a SOA infrastructure for statistically analysing public health data, Proceedings of the ACM first workshop on CyberInfrastructure: information management in eScience, November 09-09, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal
	J. Leon Zhao , Mohan Tanniru , Liang-Jie Zhang, Services computing as the foundation of enterprise agility: Overview of recent advances and introduction to the special issue, Information Systems Frontiers, v.9 n.1, p.1-8, March 2007
	Diego F. de Carvalho , Júlio C. Estrella , André P. Freire , Rudinei Goularte , Regina H. C. Santana , Renata P. M. Fortes, Functional and device interoperability in an architectural model of geographic information system, Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication, October 22-24, 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA
	Xiang Fu , Tevfik Bultan , Jianwen Su, Synchronizability of Conversations among Web Services, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.31 n.12, p.1042-1055, December 2005
	Wen-Yau Liang , Chun-Che Huang, The generic genetic algorithm incorporates with rough set theory - An application of the web services composition, Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal, v.36 n.3, p.5549-5556, April, 2009
	Júlio Cezar Estrella , Marcos José Santana , Regina H. C. Santana , Francisco José Monaco, Real-time compression of SOAP messages in a SOA environment, Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication, September 22-24, 2008, Lisbon, Portugal
	Leonid Glimcher , Gagan Agrawal, FREERIDE-G: enabling distributed processing of large datasets, Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Data-aware distributed computing, p.1-8, June 24-24, 2008, Boston, MA, USA
	Shijia Gao , Huaiqing Wang , Dongming Xu , Yingfeng Wang, An intelligent agent-assisted decision support system for family financial planning, Decision Support Systems, v.44 n.1, p.60-78, November, 2007
	Qing Xie , Mark Grechanik , Matthew Hellige, Smart: a tool for application reference testing, Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering, November 05-09, 2007, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
	Xiaodong Liu , Yankui Feng , Jon Kerridge, Automated responsive web service evolution through generative aspect-oriented component adaptation, International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, v.31 n.1/2, p.83-93, March 2008
	Kisub Song , Kyong-Ho Lee, Generating multimodal user interfaces for Web services, Interacting with Computers, v.20 n.4-5, p.480-490, September, 2008
	Pierpaolo Vittorini , Monica Michetti , Ferdinando di Orio, A SOA statistical engine for biomedical data, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, v.92 n.1, p.144-153, October, 2008
	Jonghun Park, A high performance backoff protocol for fast execution of composite web services, Computers and Industrial Engineering, v.51 n.1, p.14-25, September, 2006
	Haresh Luthria , Fethi Rabhi, Service oriented computing in practice: an agenda for research into the factors influencing the organizational adoption of service oriented architectures, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, v.4 n.1, p.39-56, April 2009
	Javier Palanca , Vicente Botti , Ana García-Fornes, Towards organizational agent-oriented operating systems, Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing, March 08-12, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii