The Lotus Web Services Initiative

01/02/09

Web services are the first common framework for dynamic, Web-based, system-to-system interaction. They take the form of modular, self-describing functions - such as a query against a shipping system, or a hook into a videoconferencing system - that combine existing systems, across platforms, into business processes. Web services enable the creation of applications that navigate, discover, and use other applications, in much the same way that people navigate, discover, and use Web sites and Web-based business applications. Web services are based entirely on accretive technology - that is, by adding capabilities to systems already in use, not by rearchitecting existing software.

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