Next, Company B invokes a Web service on Company A and sends the purchase order confirmation as a request, and receives a receipt acknowledging the purchase order confirmation as the response.

随后，公司 B 针对公司 A 调用一个 Web 服务，处理完后公司 B 发送订购单确认作为对公司 A 的请求，然后公司 A 将发送订购单确认已收到作为对公司 B 的响应。

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Now assume that you query the latest insurance rates every day from a Web service provided by the insurance company.

现在，假设您每天在保险公司提供的一个Web服务中查询最新的保险费率。

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If the server is running, the link to the company information Web service will display (Figure 16).

如果服务器正在运行，则会显示到公司信息Web服务的链接(图16)。

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But, we've got to admit, the web service is clearly the company's red-headed step child.

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For instance, if the underwriting department of an insurance company is delivered internally as a web service, it could easily be outsourced or, more likely, offered as a service to others.

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Kurnit took the metaphor of pick axes and shovels to heart, and formed The Mining Company, a human-curated web service that was dramatically different than companies like Yahoo that were building huge web catalogues by hand.

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