List of Web service specifications
List of web service specifications
Bold textThere 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. 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. The reference term "WS-*" is more of a general nod to the fact that many specifications are named with "WS-" as their prefix. This page includes many of the specifications that might be considered a part of "WS-*".
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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 developerWork: Standard and Web Service
- innoQ's WS-Standard Overview (DiagramPDF)
- MSDN .NET Developer Centre: Web Service Specification Index Page
- OASIS Standards and Other Approved Work
- Open Grid Forum Final Document
- 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-BaseNotification
- WS-Topics
- WS-BrokeredNotification
- WS-Addressing
- WS-Transfer
- WS-Eventing
- WS-Enumeration
- WS-MakeConnection
Metadata Exchange Specification
- WS-Policy
- WS-PolicyAssertions
- WS-PolicyAttachment
- WS-Discovery
- WS-Inspection
- 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
- P3P
Reliable Messaging Specifications
- WS-ReliableMessaging
- WS-Reliability
- WS-RM Policy Assertion
Resource Specifications
- Web Services Resource Framework
- WS-Resource
- WS-BaseFaults
- WS-ServiceGroup
- WS-ResourceProperties
- WS-ResourceLifetime
- WS-Transfer
- WS-Fragment
- Resource Representation SOAP Header Block
Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Specification
These specifications provide additional information to improve interoperability between vendor implementations.
- WS-I Basic Profile
- WS-I Basic Security Profile
- Simple Soap Binding Profile
Business Process Specifications
- WS-BPEL
- WS-CDL
- Web Services Choreography Interface
- WS-Choreography
- XML Process Definition Language
Transaction Specifications
- WS-BusinessActivity
- WS-AtomicTransaction
- WS-Coordination
- WS-CAF
- WS-Transaction
- WS-Context
- WS-CF
- WS-TXM
Management Specifications
- WS-Management
- WS-Management Catalog
- WS-ResourceTransfer
- WSDM
Presentation Oriented Specification
- Web Services for Remote Portlets
Draft Specifications
- WS-Provisioning Describes the APIs and Schemas necessary to facilitate interoperability between provisioning systems in a consistent manner using Web services
Other
- Devices Profile for Web Services (DPWS)
- ebXML
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