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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.
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source
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.
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.
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]
From XML Key Management (XKMS 2.0) Requirements (2003-05-05) | Glossary for this source
From The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification (2002-04-16) | Glossary for this source
From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source
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.
WSDL service: A collection of end points. [WSD Reqs]
See Web service.
From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source
From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source
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.
A logical grouping of operations. An interface represents an abstract service type, independent of transmission protocol and data format. [WSD Reqs]
From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source
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.
See SOAP intermediary.
From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source
See provider agent and provider entity. See also the discussion about service provider in [WS Arch].
From The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification (2002-04-16) | Glossary for this source
From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source
See requester agent and requester entity. See also the discussion about service requester in [WS Arch].
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.
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.
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.
From XML Key Management (XKMS 2.0) Requirements (2003-05-05) | Glossary for this source
From XML Key Management (XKMS 2.0) Requirements (2003-05-05) | Glossary for this source
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.