Web Services Standards

Interested in using web services for a new or existing systems. I have been using web services in my work projects for over a year. Over that time the standards have slowly progressed. Most people know about the three basic standards that make up web services (SOAP, UDDI and WSDL). This article discusses some of the lesser known web services standards that have been agreed upon or are currently in development.

Security Standards
SAML
When it comes to securing your web applications there may be the need to share your security setting with other systems, this is where the SAML standard helps out. SAML allows for security information to be packaged up in an XML document so that it can be transmitted between systems.

WS-SecureConversation
WS-Security
WS-SecurityPolicy

WS-Rel*
comprises: WS-Reliability and WS-ReliableMessaging

Web Services Choreography
WSRP - Portlet
WS-I: Basic Profile
WS-Addressing
WS-AtomicTransaction
WS-Attachments
WS-Context
WS-Coordination
WS-Eventing
WS-Federation
WS-Routing
WS-Transaction
WS-Trust
Search/Retrieve Web Service Version 1.1 together with CQL (Common Query Language)