List of Web service specifications - Definition and Overview

Web Service Standards Listings

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

• IBM's Web Services Standards Page (http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/views/webservices/standards.jsp)
• Microsoft's Web Services Standards Page (http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/understanding/specs/default.aspx)

Directory access

• UDDI and UDDI v2
• ebXML from http://www.oasis-open.org
• WSFL
• WS-Policy
• WS-PolicyAssertions
• WS-PolicyAttachment
• WS-SecurityPolicy
• WS-Discovery
• WS-Inspection
• DISCO

Service Description

• Web services description language from the W3C

Messaging and Function Calls

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

Basic Profile Specifications

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

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

Business Process Specifications

• BPEL4WS

Security Specifications

• XML Signature
• XML Encryption
• XML Key Management (XKMS) (http://www.w3.org/TR/xkms2/)
• 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)

Reliable Messaging Specifications

• WS-ReliableMessaging
• WS-Reliability

Transaction Specifications

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

Basic XML Specifications

• XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
• Namespaces in XML
• XML Schema
• XML Path
• XML Information Set
• JAXB a Java specification; Java-XML Binding API
• XInclude
• XML Pointer

Other

• Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP)