S1.1: Web Services

• What is it

  • Services you get over the Web
  • Commonly defined WRT Programming Paradigm
    • JAVA, XML, SOAP, and so on

• Why is it

  • Good buzzword for sales pitches
  • Extension of traditional environment to "Distributed Systems"
  • You don’t understand - Mr. Sales Puppet does!

• Who cares

  • "The Boss" read about it in an airline magazine
  • So now you care