Key standards and specifications for web services (CBR)

Key standards and specifications for web services

XML: Extensible mark-up language
XML is an extensible language because it enables the definition of many classes of document. XML is designed to make it easy to define document types, author and manage documents, and transmit and share them in a distributed environment.

SOAP: Simple object access protocol
SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchange of XML-based information in a distributed environment.

WS-Policy: Web Services Policy
A fledgling specification, this one aims to handle policies around SOAP-based web services, including but not limited to security policies.

WSDL: Web services description language
An XML-based syntax for describing web services.

BPEL: Business process execution language
XML-based language for the specification of business processes. Basically, it underpins business processes in an SOA.

UDDI: Universal description, discovery and integration
UDDI defines a registry architecture. A place to store, share and discover your web services.

WS-Security: Web Services Security
A specification - not yet a standard - for handling security in a service oriented architecture (SOA).