List of Web service specifications: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Web Service Standards Listings

These sites contain documents and links about the different standards identified on this page.

• IBM's Web Services Standards Page
• Microsoft's Web Services Standards Page

• UDDI and UDDI v2
• ebXML from http://www.oasis-open.org
• JAXB a Java specification; an abstract directory API
• WSFL
• WS-Policy
• WS-PolicyAssertions
• WS-PolicyAttachment
• WS-SecurityPolicy
• WS-Discovery
• WS-Inspection
• DISCO

• Web services description language from the W3C

• SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
• SOAP with attachments
• SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism
• XML-RPC (XML-based Remote Procedure Call)
• WS-Eventing
• WS-Addressing

These specifications provide additional information to improve interoperability between vendor implementations.

• WS-I Basic Profile
• WS-I Basic Security Profile

• BPEL4WS

• XML encryption
• WS-Security
• WS-SecureConversation
• WS-Trust
• WS-Federation
• WS-Federation Active Requestor Profile
• WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile
• Web Services Security Kerberos Binding
• Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) (used for the exchange of authentication and authorisation information)

• WS-ReliableMessaging
• WS-Reliability

• WS-Coordination
• WS-AtomicTransaction
• WS-BusinessActivity

• XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
• Namespaces in XML
• XML Schema
• XML Path
• XML Information Set
• XInclude
• XML Pointer

• Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP)