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Clabby, Joe.

Web services explained : solutions and applications for the real world / Joe Clabby.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 0-13-047963-2

1. Web site development. 2. Application software--Development. 3. Web sites--Standards. I. Title.

TK5105.888 .C543 2002

005.2'76--dc21 2002070353

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