By Ashish Dixit (1) on April 23rd, 2010
Introduction: Ever since the dawn of the Internet Application Service Providers have developed internet based applications for which they can charge through a subscription based business model. Earlier there was no standardization across these online service offerings, but web services emerged to create various standards for providing these online services: SOAP, UDDI, etc. Internet businesses adopted web services quickly and started introducing pay-to-use services on the Internet. Many companies even made publishing web services through a subscription model as their core business (weather services, financial data, etc.).
