•Web
Service Wire Format
–Protocol
to allow open communication between various entities independent of platform
–SOAP
•Web
Service Description
–Allows
for finding the details of web services, its methods, arguments, types, etc
–Web
Service Description Language (WSDL)
•Web
Service Discovery
–Allows
for a web service to make its presence known and for a client to find it
–SOAP
Discovery (DISCO)