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Web Services Policies and Standards - Archive

The lowdown on Web services - Getting past the buzz generated by emerging Internet standards. Federal Computer Week, June 17, 2002. "Just about anybody working on e-government applications is familiar with Extensible Markup Language, which is fast becoming a popular solution for exchanging information across the Internet. XML, however, is just one component of an emerging concept known as Web services..."

Web services breeds teamwork, By Vivienne Fisher, ZDNet Australia, 19 July 2002. "Two international standards bodies have teamed up on a forum about Web services, in a bid to clarify what's really going on...."

Web Services Interoperability Organization - WS-I is an open, industry organization chartered to promote Web services interoperability across platforms, operating systems, and programming languages. The organization works across the industry and standards organizations to respond to customer needs by providing guidance, best practices, and resources for developing Web services solutions

W3C - Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.2 Working Drafts Published 9 July 2002: The Web Services Description Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of the "Web Services Description Language 1.2" and bindings for use with SOAP 1.2, HTTP, and MIME. WSDL is an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. Read the press release and visit the Web Services home page.

• W3C publishes Web Services Description Language draft, By Dennis Sellers. Computerworld, 10 July, 2002. "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has issued Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.2 and WSDL 1.2 Bindings as W3C Public Working Drafts. WSDL 1.2 is an XML-based language that describes a Web Service (the data exchanged, the protocol to use and its location on the Web). WSDL 1.2 Bindings describes how to use WSDL 1.2 with SOAP 1.2, HTTP and MIME. These are the first in the series of WSDL 1.2 drafts; W3C invites the Web development community to review and comment on these and subsequent versions...."

W3C - Web Services Architecture Usage Scenarios Published 30 July 2002: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has released the first Working Draft of Web Services Architecture Usage Scenarios. The draft is a collection of usage scenarios and use cases used for generating Web services architecture requirements and for evaluating existing technologies. Comments are welcome. Visit the Web Services Activity home page. (News archive)

W3C- Web Services Requirements Updated - 19 August 2002: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has updated "Web Services Architecture Requirements." Software applications can communicate using Web services to present dynamic context-driven information to the user. The draft contains the reference architecture and the constraints used to determine implementation conformance. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web Services Activity.

Boundaryless Information Systems - The Role of Web Services, By Paul Tanner, Virtual CTO. eGov monitor Weekly, 21 October 2002. "Technologies such as B2B marketplaces have promised much to revolutionise the way we work, but ultimately disappoint. The latest buzz surrounds "web services", an environment that allows incompatible computer systems to talk to one another without the need for human intervention. In an article for eGov monitor, Paul Tanner, Virtual CTO, examines the practicalities of how web services can help to drive the delivery of government e-services." (c) KAM Ltd 2002. "This article was first published by eGov monitor Weekly"

W3C: Web Services Description Requirements Last Call Published: 28 October 2002: The Web Services Description Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of "Web Service Description Requirements." The document describes definitions and requirements for specifying application to application communication. Comments are welcome through 31 December. Read about the Web Services Activity.

W3C - Web Services Architecture Working Draft Published - 14 November 2002: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of Web Services Architecture. Software applications can communicate using Web services to present dynamic context-driven information to the user. The reference architecture identifies Web services components, defines relationships among those components, and establishes constraints upon them. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web Services Activity.

W3C - Web Services Requirements Updated, Glossary Published - 14 November 2002: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has updated Web Services Architecture Requirements. The draft contains the Web services reference architecture and the constraints used to determine implementation conformance. The group also published the first public Working Draft of the Web Services Glossary. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web Services Activity.

• W3C defines Web services, by Paul Festa. CNET News.com, News.com. The New York Times, 14 November 2002. "The Web's leading standards group on Thursday issued a trio of documents on the architecture of Web services and launched an unprecedented effort to standardize Web services lingo..."

Web services Visionary: From mishmash to strategy, by Mike Ricciuti, ZDNet Australia, December 4, 2002.

Open source option for developing Web services, By Paul Krill. Computerworld, 12 December, 2002. "Open source presents a viable option for developing Web services if developers are willing to work with tools that are not as easy to use as commercial products, a consultant said during a Web services conference on Tuesday..."

Former Utah CIO offers pointers, By Patricia Daukantas. Government Computer News, v.22, no.2, 27 January 2003. "Agencies should start taking small steps toward Web services, former Utah CIO Phillip J. Windley says..."

W3C - Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.2 Working Drafts Published 24 January 2002: The Web Services Description Working Group has released updated Working Drafts of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 1.2 and bindings for use with SOAP 1.2, HTTP, and MIME. WSDL is an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. Read about Web Services.

WS-I publishes draft guidance documentation, By Stacy Cowley. Computerworld, 31 January, 2003. "The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), a year-old industry group that offers application development guidance, released Thursday draft versions of a series of documents intended to describe the design and deployment of a sample, standards-compliant Web services application..."

Security key goal for Web services group, By Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com, February 4, 2003. "A group working to ensure the compatibility of Web services software is preparing to tackle its biggest challenge yet: security..."

Taming Web services - Emerging technologies may bring order to XML-based integration, By John Moore. Federal Computer Week, March 24, 2003. "Like flowers in an untended garden, Web services are blooming freely but without much order..."

Group eyes Web services security, By Martin LaMonica. CNET News.com, April 1, 2003. "A standards body is hoping to remove one of the biggest hurdles standing in the way of greater Web services adoption..."

National Office for the Information Economy - Web services: technology for integration and efficient communication, 16 April 2003 - papers presented:

• Update on government interoperability and web services
• Web services in perspective
• Technology trends and overview
• The Australian Experience
• The Australian Taxation Office approach to web services

W3C - Web Services Architecture Working Drafts Published 14 May 2003: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has updated three Working Drafts: Web Services Architecture, Usage Scenarios and the Web Services Glossary. Software applications can communicate using Web services to present dynamic context-driven information to the user. The reference architecture identifies Web services components, defines their relationships, and establishes constraints. Visit the Web Services home page.

Getting on Track with Web Services - Still feel like you've been left behind at the station when it comes to Web Services? Pick up this train of thought. BY Jeremy Epstein. Darwin Magazine, May 2003. "Near the end of the 19th century, Dr. Ludwig Zamenhof, a Polish ophthalmologist, decided that the national languages in use at the time were too complex to become a tool for international understanding. To simplify things, he invented Esperanto..."

DRAFT Principles for Enabling Web Services, by Phillip J. Windley, Ph.D.Chief Information Officer, Office of the Governor, State of Utah, Utah.gov, 2002 - in pdf format.(To view this document you will need to have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer) (120kb)

Web Services Security, Part 1, By Bilal Siddiqui. webservices.xml.com, March 4, 2003. "This is the first of a four part series of articles that will examine issues related to web services security. The goal is to explain and demonstrate the use of emerging XML-based security standards from W3C and OASIS..."

Web Services Security, Part 2, By Bilal Siddiqui. webservices.xml.com, 1 April 2003. "In my previous article I discussed the security requirements of web services in B2B integration applications. I also introduced some XML-based security standards from W3C and OASIS..."

Web Services Security, Part 3, By Bilal Siddiqui. webservices.xml.com, May 13, 2003. "In the first article of this series, I explained why traditional network firewalls are inadequate to provide security to web service applications, which is why we need to implement web service security at the XML messaging layer..."

Web services 'yellow pages' gains ground, By Martin LaMonica, ZDNet Australia, May 21, 2003. "A standards body on Tuesday put its stamp of approval on a technology for finding Web services across a network..."

Web services in action, by Preston Gralla. Computerworld, 29 May 2003. "Web services may be the latest hot topic of conversation, but for many companies, that's all the technology amounts to -- talk. Not so for four pioneering companies where Web services are already in operation and paying big dividends. We talked with IT managers at these organizations about how they've learned to exploit the technology by reusing Web service modules and better integrating their own internal business processes with those of external partners..."

Mappers write Cookbook 1.0 for Web services, By Susan M. Menke. Government Computer News, 30 May 2003. "The Open GIS Consortium Inc. has put together a batch of not-yet time-tested recipes in Cookbook 1.0, the first in a planned series about Web map services..."

Will Web services deliver? By J.B. Miles. Government Computer News, v.22, no.13, 2 June 2003. "These tools lay the groundwork for the future of e-commerce. Web services are heralded as a revolutionary new concept that will gain huge competitive advantages for their users, reinvent the Internet as we know it and produce revenues of about $32 million by 2010..."

Web services, simply put, by Frank P. Coyle, Computerworld, 12 June 2003. "The Web and XML have changed our perspective about what data can do. Instead of regarding data as something to be stored in a database and shuttled across existing networks by systems locked in a tight embrace, the XML family of standards allows data to move freely about the loosely coupled Web and create new business opportunities..."

W3C - Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.2 Working Drafts Published 11 June 2003: The Web Services Description Working Group has released three Working Drafts of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 1.2. "Core Language" and "Bindings" are updates and "Message Patterns" is a first public Working Draft. WSDL is an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages. Read about Web Services.

ROI analyses key factor in web services take-off, report. Europemedia, 15 July 2003. "Missing return-on-investment (ROI) analyses are a key factor in slowing down the take-off of web services. That’s one of the most significant conclusions gleaned from a recent Meta Group study, published on 7 July..."

The End of Architecture - Where public service and Web services meet, By Paul Taylor. Government Technology, August 2003. "The IT sector may be witnessing the end of architecture. That's not to say architecture is passé or irrelevant, which Intel strategist Chris Thomas is sometimes misconstrued as saying when he argues for a fundamental rethinking of all things architectural..."

W3C and Web Services - Slides for the Australian W3C Office series of seminars on Web Services, conducted during the 3rd quarter of 2003.

Web Services Architecture Working Drafts Published - The Web Services Architecture Working Group has updated two Working Drafts: "Web Services Architecture" and the "Web Services Glossary." The reference architecture identifies Web services components, defines their relationships and establishes constraints. Changes since the prior publication include five architectural models. Visit the Web Services home page.

WS-I releases Web services interoperability plan, by Paul Krill, InfoWorld, 13 August 2003. "Looking to find the Holy Grail of low-cost, easy interoperability for data and applications, the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) on Tuesday is set to release its Basic Profile 1.0 document..."

Great Expectations - Can Web services live up to the hype? By Shane Peterson. Government Technology, September 2003. "Some say Web services represent an evolutionary force that will transform electronic government. The argument goes that for the first time, the stuff Web services is built on -- an alphabet soup of interrelated Internet standards -- gives agencies access to information stored in other agencies' siloed systems fairly painlessly..."

OASIS Advances Web Services Portal Standard, By Thor Olavsrud. InternetNews, September 11, 2003. "Members of the OASIS standards consortium Thursday advanced Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) 1.0 as an OASIS Standard, codifying how portal front ends should consume Web services, and the way which content providers should write Web services for portals..."

Government Semantic XML Web Services Community of Practice (SWS-CoP) in cooperation with the Government XML Working Group, the Universal Access Collaboration Workshops, Emerging Components, Government Enterprise Architecture Framework (GEAF) Components Registry and Repository, and other Communities of Practice (CoP).

Testing Web services interoperability, by Mark Gibbs, Network World, Computerworld, 2 October 2003. "Testing Web services is a tricky task because of the currently limited choice of tools. In an effort to fill the gap the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), an open industry effort set up to promote Web services interoperability across platforms, applications, and programming languages, has released a set of utilities to monitor and analyze Web service data exchanges..."

W3C - Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0 Working Drafts Published 2003-11-10: The Web Services Description Working Group has released two Working Drafts of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: Part 1: Core Language and Part 2: Message Patterns. WSDL is a model and XML format for describing network services. The language enables separate, fundamental stages for abstract function and concrete details. Read about Web Services.

OASIS drafts standard for Web services security, By Jason Miller. Government Computer News, 21 November 2003. "The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards of Billerica, Mass., has finished a draft security standard for Web services connecting disparate systems..."

Tips for designing a service-oriented architecture - The key is finding maximum return on software investment, By  Brent Sleeper InfoWorld, November 26, 2003. "The realities of project deadlines, team skills, and tight budgets mean that building a Web services SOA (service-oriented architecture) is less about choosing a technology than it is about spotting opportunities for maximum return on software investment. Here are some core design principles to help you concoct a plan that will pay off soon and, with luck, over the long haul..."

W3C - Web Services Architecture Working Group Notes Published 2004-02-11: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has released Working Group Notes representing the culmination of their work: Web Services Architecture, Usage Scenarios, the Glossary, and Requirements. The reference architecture identifies Web services components, defines their relationships and establishes constraints. Visit the Web Services home page.

W3C - Working Drafts: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0 2004-03-26: The Web Services Description Working Group has updated two Working Drafts of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: Part 1: Core Language and Part 2: Message Patterns. WSDL is a model and XML format for describing network services. The drafts enable abstract functionality and concrete details, and define sequence, cardinality and criteria for conformant processors.

OASIS approves web services security standard, By Staff writers, TechWeb News, April 20, 2004. "International standards body OASIS this week said it has approved Web Services Security, which provides a framework for securing messages sent between applications built on web services standards..."

WS-Security receives official blessing from OASIS, By John Fontana. Network World Fusion (U.S.), 20 Apr 2004. "Web Services Security 1.0, the foundation specification for creating a security infrastructure around Web services, officially became a standard Monday, paving the way for corporate adoption..."

W3C - Web Services Choreography Description Language 1.0 Working Draft Published 2004-04-27: The Web Services Choreography Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the Web Services Choreography Description Language Version 1.0 (WS-CDL). Comments are invited on the group's public mailing list. WS-CDL defines peer-to-peer collaboration between Web service participants. Read the press release and visit the Web services home page.

W3C - Working Draft: Web Services Internationalization Usage Scenarios 2004-05-12: The Web Services Task Force of the Internationalization Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Web Services Internationalization Usage Scenarios with additional guidance for implementers of Web service technologies. The document examines how language, culture and related issues interact with Web services architecture and technology. Comments are welcome on this draft. Visit the Internationalization home page.

W3C - Last Call: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0 2004-08-03: The Web Services Description Working Group has published Last Call Working Drafts of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: Part 1: Core Language, Part 2: Predefined Extensions and Part 3: Bindings. WSDL is an XML language for describing network services. The drafts describe functionality, and define sequence, cardinality and criteria for conformant processors. Comments are welcome through 4 October. Read about Web services.

5 Web services that matter - Extending applications beyond the enterprise, By Brian Robinson. Federal Computer Week, September 20, 2004. "This matters too: Coming attractions: Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) defines a standard notation for describing how business processes work and interact with Web services, something that will be necessary if government and industry officials want to automate system-to-system transactions either internally or among organizations..."

Clearing the view ahead: Frequently asked questions about Web services - Cut through the fog around Web services to see the future of enterprise software, By Brian Robinson. Federal Computer Week, January 24, 2005

Industry struggles toward interoperable Web services, By Susan M. Menke. Government Computer News, 4 February 2005. "A generic Extensible Markup Language architecture for Web services advocated by the Web Services Interoperability Organization will “significantly reduce the cost and complexity of connecting disparate systems,” according to a message from Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates. The e-mail message circulated yesterday..."

Sorting out Web services security standards, Opinion by Rich Salz, DataPower. Computerworld, February 3, 2005. "One of the most active parts of the XML Web services community is the groups developing security standards. Today, we have more than 40 security standards in various stages of specification at several different organizations, as well as various implementations in similar states of completion and conformance..."

Standards and Web services. IBM Developer Works, dW:Newsletter - Technology edition - June 9, 2005 - Vol 6, Issue 23. "Web services are a set of emerging standards that enable interoperable integration between heterogeneous information technology processes and systems. You can think of them as a new breed of Web application that is self-contained and self-describing, and which can provide functionality and interoperation ranging from the very basic to the most complicated business and scientific processes. In short, Web services hold the promise for providing a common standard mechanism for interoperable integration among disparate systems, and the key to their utility is their standardization. This common mechanism for delivering a "service" makes them ideal for implementing a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)..."

Firefox unfriendly websites names and shamed, Written by Net 4 Nowt, 21 June 2005. "One in ten websites fail to provide access to non Internet Explorer browsers such as Firefox and risk alienating customers and suffer consequential revenue losses. This is the primary finding of research undertaken by web testing specialist SciVisum, which examined a number of well-known sites using the Firefox browser and checked site compatibility with recognised web standards..."

Worldwide Web Services Software 2005-2009 Forecast: Let the Races Begin. IDC, May 2005

• Consumption of Web Services Will Greatly Increase Through 2009, IDC Finds. Government Technology, July 18, 2005. "According to a recently released IDC study, the vendor community has shifted its primary attention from Web services creation to that of more robust consumption, with security, management, messaging and event processing, and the assembly of services into composite solutions as key focal points. Leading adopters are evolving proof-of-concept implementations into more robust deployments..."

Microsoft and IBM Announce Submission of Security Specifications to OASIS. XML Cover Pages, 14 July 2005. "An updated version of the Web Services Security Policy Language (WS-SecurityPolicy) specification has been released by IBM, Microsoft, RSA Security, and VeriSign. IBM and Microsoft have also announced that this WS-SecurityPolicy specification, together with Web Services Trust Language (WS-Trust) and Web Services Secure Conversation Language (WS-SecureConversation), will be submitted to OASIS for standardization in September 2005..."

W3C - Last Call: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0 2005-08-03: The Web Services Description Working Group has published Last Call Working Drafts of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: the Primer, Part 1: Core Language, Part 2: Adjuncts and the SOAP 1.1 Binding. An XML language, WSDL describes network services and is used to document distributed systems and automate communication between applications. Comments are welcome through 19 September.

W3C - Working Draft: Web Services Internationalization 2005-09-14: The Internationalization Core Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Web Services Internationalization (WS-I18N). The draft enhances SOAP messaging for locale and international preference negotiation and defines a locale policy. Without using Accept-Language and user identity, implementations can handle the requester's locale, locale policy and language preference. Visit the Internationalization home page.

Last updated: 22 December 2005

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