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unusual facts about Web Service


NHL 2K3

NHL 2K3 utilizes ESPN's presentation and was the first hockey game developed to utilize the Xbox Live online service.


Dynamic web page

The scripting also allows use of remote scripting, a technique by which the DHTML page requests additional information from a server, using a hidden Frame, XMLHttpRequests, or a Web service.

Enterprise messaging system

EMS systems are facilitated by the use of structured messages (e.g. using XML or JSON, and appropriate protocols, such as DDS, MSMQ, AMQP or SOAP with web services.

Mutalyzer

The Mutalyzer server supports programmatic access via a SOAP Web service described in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) and an HTTP/RPC+JSON web service.

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse

OEPE is the acronym for Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, a set of Eclipse plugins to facilitate development of Java SE, Java EE, Web service, ORM, and Spring applications on Oracle WebLogic Server.

Standardized service contract

One of its goals is to reduce the need for data transformations as two services interact with each other, which can be achieved if the service contracts use standardized data models e.g. XML schemas if the services have been implemented as web services.

Taverna workbench

Taverna allows users to integrate many different software components, including SOAP or REST Web services, such as those provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the European Bioinformatics Institute, the DNA Databank of Japan (DDBJ), SoapLab, BioMOBY and EMBOSS.

WS-Atomic Transaction

These protocols and services together ensure automatic activation, registration, propagation and atomic termination of Web Services.

XML appliance

They are most popularly implemented in Service Oriented Architectures to control XML based Web Services traffic, and increasingly in cloud oriented computing to help enterprises integrate on premise applications with off premise cloud hosted applications.


see also

CBC.ca

In 1993, CBC launched an experimental web service, followed by a small site supporting CBC Radio and a site supporting the CBC Halifax TV program Street Cents.

Desktop Tower Defense

Originally, the game was promoted through the web service StumbleUpon, getting further boosts from popular bloggers such as Michael Arrington.

Europass

An example is the web service which enables the remote generation of Europass documents in PDF, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word formats, starting from a Europass XML file.

Meez

Meez was developed Donnerwood Media (the License-Holders for Tringo) as an "online entertainment" web service.

Parlay

Parlay X, a set of standard Web service APIs for the telephone network

Service-oriented communications

The maturing of web service technology has provided a real framework for allowing one system to leverage the services of another according to the principles of a Service Oriented Architecture.

TinyURL

TinyURL is a URL shortening service, a web service that provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs.

Upstream Tracker

Upstream Tracker is a web service providing analysis of API changes from the backward compatibility point of view for a variety of C/C++ and Java libraries.

WSTF

Web Services Test Forum - provides an interoperability test framework for the Web Service community