Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Web Services
     
         A business and technology
        term encompassing the possibility of openly working with other
        business, {developers}, and {programs} through
        publicly-available open {APIs}.
     
        See {UDDI}, {WSDL}, {Simple Object Access Protocol}.
     
        {W3C Web Services Activity (http://www.w3.org/2002/ws)}.
     
        (2002-06-28)