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Refers to any application or document that uses the Internet as a communication backbone while exploiting Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) as a means to link to other applications or content.
Industry:Technology
Web widgets are reusable, stand-alone Web applications that can be embedded into third-party sites by any user that has appropriate rights of authorship. They don’t require site-specific compiling or giving control of the site to the party providing the widget. Widgets use representational state transfer (REST)-based APIs to communicate with Web-accessible resources.
Industry:Technology
Web TV services enable a user to access the Web on a television set using a special remote control and a decoder that sits on top of the TV. Services are offered by various types of provider — e.g., TV broadcasters, satellite operators, and telecom operators. The connection can be provided over various media — analog or digital telephone lines, cable network or satellite links — depending on local infrastructure.
Industry:Technology
Deploying Web-services-enabled software will be an evolutionary process, not a revolutionary one. The majority of software vendors have committed to supporting Web services software standards within their established product lines, but it will take more than four years to evolve these immature standards, build up skills, and plan, build and test for new versions of software that gradually incorporate these standards. Web services standards will be deployed through multiple markets, such as integration suites, AD tools and some enterprise application segments.
Industry:Technology
A software concept and infrastructure — supported by several major computing vendors (notably Microsoft and IBM) — for program-to-program communication and application component delivery. The Web services concept treats software as a set of services accessible over ubiquitous networks using Web-based standards and protocols.
Specifically, a Web service is a software component can be accessed by another application (such as a client, a server or another Web service) through the use of generally available, ubiquitous protocols and transports, such as Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP). Joint efforts between IBM and Microsoft, with the support of other vendors such as Ariba and Iona Technologies, have produced agreement on a basic set of XML-based standards for Web service interface definition, discovery and remote calling. They include:
• Web Services Description Language (WSDL) for describing Web service interfaces • Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) as the means for users to publish and locate available Web services, their characteristics and interfaces • Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), which enables an application to call a Web service
See HTTP, .NET, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL and XML.
Industry:Technology
The central location that hosts Web pages or a website and enables a remote “client” (system or program) to access the material held.
Industry:Technology
A cell phone equipped with a microbrowser and network data capability through Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) or other Web integration technologies. These devices differ from smartphones (see separate entry) in that the latter are more data-centric, offering network-independent (offline) applications such as contact management and expense reporting.
Industry:Technology
Web servers that directly support Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP); execute a proprietary, high-level 4GL or scripting language; and include one or more adapters for databases, legacy systems and packaged applications. Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based Web integration servers are similar; however, they also use XML data internally within the server and externally with clients and other applications.
Industry:Technology
A service in which a vendor offers the housing of business-to-business (B2B) or business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce websites via vendor-owned shared or dedicated servers and applications for enterprises at the provider-controlled facilities. The vendor is responsible for all day-to-day operations and maintenance of the website. The customer is responsible for the content.
Industry:Technology
An e-mail option that requires only a browser. A user can walk up to any Internet-connected device (e.g., a PC or airport kiosk), launch a browser, connect to a Web mail server, enter a user name and password and check e-mail.
Industry:Technology
