There are a variety of specifications associated with web services. These specifications are in varying degrees of maturity and are maintained or supported by various standards bodies and entities. These specifications are the basic web services framework established by first-generation standards represented by WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI. Specifications may complement, overlap, and compete with each other. Web service specifications are occasionally referred to collectively as "WS-*", though there is not a single managed set of specifications that this consistently refers to, nor a recognized owning body across them all.
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Web service standards listings
These sites contain documents and links about the different Web services standards identified on this page.
- IBM Developerworks: Standard and Web Service
- innoQ's WS-Standard Overview ("Diagram" (PDF).)
- MSDN .NET Developer Centre: Web Service Specification Index Page
- OASIS Standards and Other Approved Work
- Open Grid Forum Final Document Archived 2013-10-22 at the Wayback Machine
- XML CoverPage
- W3C's Web Services Activity
XML specification
- XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
- XML Namespaces
- XML Schema
- XPath
- XQuery
- XML Information Set
- XInclude
- XML Pointer
Messaging specification
- SOAP (formerly known as Simple Object Access Protocol)
- SOAP-over-UDP
- SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism
- WS-Notification
- WS-Addressing
- WS-Transfer
- WS-Eventing
- WS-Enumeration
- WS-MakeConnection
Metadata exchange specification
- JSON-WSP
- WS-Policy
- WS-PolicyAssertions
- WS-PolicyAttachment
- WS-Discovery
- WS-MetadataExchange
- Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI)
- WSDL 2.0 Core
- WSDL 2.0 SOAP Binding
- Web Services Semantics (WSDL-S)
- WS-Resource Framework (WSRF)
Security specification
- WS-Security
- XML Signature
- XML Encryption
- XML Key Management (XKMS)
- WS-SecureConversation
- WS-SecurityPolicy
- WS-Trust
- WS-Federation
- WS-Federation Active Requestor Profile
- WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile
- Web Services Security Kerberos Binding
- Web Single Sign-On Interoperability Profile
- Web Single Sign-On Metadata Exchange Protocol
- Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
- XACML
Privacy
Reliable messaging specifications
Resource specifications
Web services interoperability (WS-I) specification
Further information: WS-IThese specifications provide additional information to improve interoperability between vendor implementations.
Business process specifications
- WS-BPEL
- WS-CDL
- Web Service Choreography Interface (WSCI)
- WS-Choreography
- XML Process Definition Language
- Web Services Conversation Language (WSCL)
Transaction specifications
- WS-BusinessActivity
- WS-AtomicTransaction
- WS-Coordination
- WS-CAF
- WS-Transaction
- WS-Context
- WS-CF
- WS-TXM
Management specifications
Presentation-oriented specification
Draft specifications
- WS-Provisioning – Describes the APIs and schemas necessary to facilitate interoperability between provisioning systems in a consistent manner using Web services
Other
Standardization
- ISO/IEC 19784-2:2007 Information technology -- Biometric application programming interface -- Part 2: Biometric archive function provider interface
- ISO 19133:2005 Geographic information -- Location-based services -- Tracking and navigation
- ISO/IEC 20000-1:2005 Information technology -- Service management -- Part 1: Specification
- ISO/IEC 20000-2:2005 Information technology -- Service management -- Part 2: Code of practice
- ISO/IEC 24824-2:2006 Information technology -- Generic applications of ASN.1: Fast Web Services
- ISO/IEC 25437:2006 Information technology -- Telecommunications and information exchange between systems -- WS-Session -- Web Services for Application Session Services
See also
References
- "Web Service Extensions". Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- IBM Developerworks: Standard and Web Service
- "SOAP-over-UDP v1.1". docs.oasis-open.org. Retrieved 4 December 2017.