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A service provided over the Internet, usually in a data language, meant as communication between computer software.

EDI was a precusor to web services, and is relaively difficult and expensive to implement, but reputedly reliable.

The XML-RPC protocol is used for simple web services.

The SOAP protocol is used for both simple and more complex web services.

See also: web services

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