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<h2>5.4. Web Services Protocol Support</h2>
<p>The Internet is reaching a stage where automatic processes want to rely
on other sites and services presenting their uses in a standard way. This is
Web Services. What ever an organization or repository of data contains the
it needs to be exploited as fully as possibly. This is exposing existing
systems as Web Services. These need to be accessible over well known protocols
which combine to provide a service over the web.</p>
<p>SQL provides the means to query data within a database. This is a very
well known and supported operation. The query may or may not be able to
make use of free text indexes to obtain results faster and more accurately from
textual sources. The source could even come from a remote database contacted
over ODBC, JDBC or OLEDB - more well supported standards. The results may be
shipped to another server for further processing. Further processing could
include transformations into various XML's directly or via an XSLT stylesheet.
This collaboration of services can be enhanced further with other Web and Internet
protocols for the grand objective of making parts of useful information or
ability consumable over the Internet as a Web Service. </p>
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