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Article: Users ramping up Web services.
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- Network World
- Article date:
- August 31, 2001
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BOSTON - While the concept of Web services interests users, many are just starting to cut through the vendor hype surrounding the technology to see how they can turn it to their advantage.
Microsoft, IBM, Sun and Hewlett-Packard are some of the companies pushing Web services, which in essence would pull together information from different sources internally and externally over the Internet.
Web services are based on four central standards: XML, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) and Web Services Description Language (WSDL).
UDDI is universal registry of e-business resources for ...