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Web Service
A Web Service is a means for objects to obtain data from other remote objects over the internet using common internet protocol, normally XML over HTTP.

A Web Service publishes what functions it provides (using WSDL). Clients communicate with the Web Service using XML and receive results back in XML form. Web Services typically make use of SOAP to translate objects into XML

See also UDDI.

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