Web service standards are enjoying widespread adoption.
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Web service standards are enjoying widespread adoption. Corporations are using Web standards to describe their application's interfaces and data to make it easier for other systems to consume these products. Using these standards, software clients written in one programming language can access and retrieve information from a server, regardless of the technology (e.g., hardware, operating system, and programming language) used by the server. However, even with the adoption of these Web standards, the programmer writes much of the "glue code" necessary for a particular operation.