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The web service activity statement explain the W3c’s work through
4. XML Protocol working group
5. Web service addressing work group
6. Web services descritpion working group
7. Semantic web services interest group
Innovation in web services is indicator of the impact of web technology on users.
Web methods has had a good early vision and broad support for web services in product .
Web methods has substantial involvement in authorings, editing or chairing web services
initiatives in the W3c.
Web services are likely to be very important of the next generation of distrubuted services.
They are :
Internet : It is a way in which various applications and services are linked
Interoperability : Web services can run on any platform and can be written in an
proramming language.
Low barrier to enrty: It is easy to understand, more flexible of linking applications
Ubiquity: Web services relay on HTTP and XML, any device that supports these
technologies. Even wireless services can be providing using web services.
Industry support : All major vendors support and are involved with extending the
standards around which web services are built.
The greatest benefir for most web services is the improved communication and
collaboration that occurs with in an organization
8. Eliminate paperwork
9. Create a best practices
10. Share the lime light
11. Provide relevant news
12. Encourage multiple intranets
13. Provide effective search tools.
Web services are agents of information diffusion through web technology
2. Diffusion of Information
Diffusion of information is an information transfer process of knowledge, know-how
procedures and facilities. It is the spreading activation of the usage of knowledge within
a population of users , usually within a group characterized by some common element of
productive activity such as farming , mining etc.,
The flow of information commences from the collection of innovative ideas which should
reflect social aims and needs. The extent of diffusion of a technology at any given time is
defined by the degree to which it is being applied at that time.
Technology is believed to be one of the major forces under pinning economic growth.
Technology transfer system would lead to an efficient use of resources, information.
We need to develop a simplified data acquisition system for the process of assessment of
technology to be transferred to developing countries. Such a system should aim to be both
realistic as well as practicable sustainable. Socio-cultural values must be considered first
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