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The World Wide Web is more and more used for application to application communication. The programmatic interfaces made available are referred to as Web services.
The goal of the Web Services Activity is to develop a set of technologies in order to lead Web services to their full potential. The Web Services Activity Statement explains the W3C's work on this topic in more detail.
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Previous news items are available on the history page.
A complete list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index.
The Activity, coordinated by one Coordination Group, is currently composed of six Working Groups:
and one Interest Group:
Previous Groups that have finished their work in this Activity are:
Detailed information about the work of each of these groups can be found on their respective home pages.
General technical discussions and announcements about Web services happen on the www-ws publicly archived mailing list, by sending email to www-ws@w3.org.
For specific Working Group discussions, please refer to the Groups' home pages:
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