>>I don't. How's your take different from the 'party line'?
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>Maybe I'm being picky, but a Web Service can be used to communicate across the web, or accross an intranet, or even between to programs running on teh same machine. I think either the intranet or same machine is what Craig had in mind when he suggested using Web services underneath a Web application.

Intranet is a valid use, I agree. For a machine talking to itself, it's more like an extremely heavy workaround for incompatible components, or the result of a misguided developer attempting to use the latest thing...