- Web Services - Summary
- Web Services - Standards
- Web Services - Security
- Web Services - Examples
- Web Services - Components
- Web Services - Architecture
- Web Services - Characteristics
- Why Web Services?
- What are Web Services?
- Web Services - Home
Web Services Resources
- Web Services - Discussion
- Web Services - Useful Resources
- Web Services - Quick Guide
- WebServices - Questions & Answers
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Web Services - Standards
This chapter gives you an idea of all the latest standards related to web services.
Transports
BEEP, the Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (formerly referred to as BXXP), is a framework for building apppcation protocols. It has been standardized by IETF and it does for Internet protocols what XML has done for data.
Messaging
These messaging standards and specifications are intended to give a framework for exchanging information in a decentrapzed, distributed environment.
Description and Discovery
Web services are meaningful only if potential users may find information sufficient to permit their execution. The focus of these specifications and standards is the definition of a set of services supporting the description and discovery of businesses, organizations, and other web services providers; the web services they make available; and the technical interfaces which may be used to access those services.
Security
Using these security specifications, apppcations can engage in secure communication designed to work with the general web services framework.
Management
Web services manageabipty is defined as a set of capabipties for discovering the existence, availabipty, health, performance, usage, as well as the control and configuration of a web service within the web services architecture. As web services become pervasive and critical to business operations, the task of managing and implementing them is imperative to the success of business operations.