DESCRIPTION:
A Web Service is specific kind of service that is identified by a universal resource identifier (URI), whose service description and transport utilise open Internet standards.
INTEROPERABILITY SALIENCY:
IoP Dimension: Structural IoP, Behavioral IoP
EXAMPLES:
The following implementation is an example on how this specific Architecture Building Block (ABB) can be instantiated as a Solution Building Block (SBB):
Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
WSDL is an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. The operations and messages are described abstractly, and then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format to define an endpoint
Source: https://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl.html