a combination of software tools that let application software in one organization communicate with other applications over a network using the soap, uddi, and wsdl protocols
the term &"web service&" describes a standardized way of integrating web-based applications using the xml, soap, wsdl and uddi open standards over an internet protocol backbone.
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