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discovery service

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

A discovery service is a service that enables agents to retrieve Web services-related resource description.

ISP (Internet service provider)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

The party providing one with connectivity to the Internet. Some users have a cable or some sort of wireless link to their ISP. For others, their computer may dial an ISP by phone and send and receive Internet packets over the phone line; the ISP then forwards the packets over the Internet.
manageable service

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

A Web service becomes a manageable service with additional semantics, policy statements, and monitoring and control (or management) capabilities (exposed via a management interface) all for the purpose of managing the service.

quality of service

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

Quality of Service is an obligation accepted and advertised by a provider entity to service consumers.

security service

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

A processing or communication service that is provided by a system to give a specific kind of protection to resources, where said resources may reside with said system or reside with other systems, for example, an authentication service or a PKI-based document attribution and authentication service. A security service is a superset of AAA services. Security services typically implement portions of security policies and are implemented via security mechanisms. [RFC 2828]

service

From XML Key Management (XKMS 2.0) Requirements (2003-05-05) | Glossary for this source

An application that provides computational or informational resources on request. A service may be provided by several physical servers operating as a unit.
service

From The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification (2002-04-16) | Glossary for this source

A program that issues policies and (possibly) data requests. By this definition, a service may be a server (site), a local application, a piece of locally active code, such as an ActiveX control or Java applet, or even another user agent. Typically, however, a service is usually a Web site. In this specification the terms "service" and "Web site" are often used interchangeably.The person or legal entity which offers information, products or services from a Web site, collects information, and is responsible for the representations made in a practice statement.
service

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

  1. A service is an abstract resource that represents a capability of performing tasks that form a coherent functionality from the point of view of providers entities and requesters entities. To be used, a service must be realized by a concrete provider agent.

  2. WSDL service: A collection of end points. [WSD Reqs]

  3. See Web service.

service description

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

A service description is a set of documents that describe the interface to and semantics of a service.

service interface

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

  1. A service interface is the abstract boundary that a service exposes. It defines the types of messages and the message exchange patterns that are involved in interacting with the service, together with any conditions implied by those messages.

  2. A logical grouping of operations. An interface represents an abstract service type, independent of transmission protocol and data format. [WSD Reqs]

service intermediary

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

  1. A service intermediary is a Web service whose main role is to transform messages in a value-added way. (From a messaging point of view, an intermediary processes messages en route from one agent to another.) Specifically, we say that a service intermediary is a service whose outgoing messages are equivalent to its incoming messages in some application-defined sense.

  2. See SOAP intermediary.

service provider

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

service provider (Data controller, legal entity)

From The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification (2002-04-16) | Glossary for this source

The person or legal entity which offers information, products or services from a Web site, collects information, and is responsible for the representations made in a practice statement.
service requester

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

service role

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

An abstract set of tasks which is identified to be relevant by a person or organization offering a service. Service roles are also associated with particular aspects of messages exchanged with a service.

service semantics

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

The semantics of a service is the behavior expected when interacting with the service. The semantics expresses a contract (not necessarily a legal contract) between the provider entity and the requester entity. It expresses the effect of invoking the service. A service semantics may be formally described in a machine readable form, identified but not formally defined, or informally defined via an out of band agreement between the provider and the requester entity.

service-oriented architecture

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

A set of components which can be invoked, and whose interface descriptions can be published and discovered.

trust service

From XML Key Management (XKMS 2.0) Requirements (2003-05-05) | Glossary for this source

A service that is capable of registering public keys and/or providing key information services, including key validation and location.
web service

From XML Key Management (XKMS 2.0) Requirements (2003-05-05) | Glossary for this source

A service that is accessible by means of messages sent using standard web protocols, notations and naming conventions, including XML Protocol (or until XML protocol is standardized, SOAP). Web service may also imply the use of ancillary mechanisms, such as WSDL [WSDL ] and UDDI [ UDDI ] for defining Web services interfaces.
web service

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

There are many things that might be called "Web services" in the world at large. However, for the purpose of this Working Group and this architecture, and without prejudice toward other definitions, we will use the following definition:

A Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. It has an interface described in a machine-processable format (specifically WSDL). Other systems interact with the Web service in a manner prescribed by its description using SOAP-messages, typically conveyed using HTTP with an XML serialization in conjunction with other Web-related standards.


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