Is it one word, or two?
I'm mostly asking because I want to know if in Java naming it should be "webService" or "webservice".
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A:
Such a difficult question can only be answered by a Google Fight. It's no contest: "Web Service" (two words) is the clear winner.
Interestingly, "website" vs. "web site" was the fight of yesterdecade, and the former eventually won out, it seems. For a long time, "web site" was the correct form. Perhaps "webservice" will catch on in the same manner. For now, not so.
ChessWhiz
2010-09-30 00:42:54
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Since you tagged the question web-services, I think you should add "web-service" to the list of possibility. Of course, that doesn't work for Java.
I would use two words for now in case someone unfamiliar with the term is reading your code.
Computerish
2010-09-30 00:43:19
Tags can't have spaces in them, so I think that's a two-words answer. Perhaps the tag would be "web services" if that were an option.
ChessWhiz
2010-09-30 00:51:29
@Chess: dashes (`-`) in tags represent spaces, since tags themselves are space-delimited.
Matt Ball
2010-09-30 01:04:56
Good point. I guess "web services" is it then.
Computerish
2010-09-30 01:13:50