There 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. These variety of specifications are the basic web services framework established by first-generation standards represented by WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI. 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.
“WS-“is a prefix used to indicate specifications associated with Web Services and there exist many WS* standards including WS-Addressing, WS-Discovery, WS-Federation, WS-Policy, WS-Security, and WS-Trust. This page includes many of the specifications that might be considered a part of "WS-*".
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 ("Diagram" (PDF). )
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 (eXtensible Markup Language)
XML Namespaces
XML Schema
XPath
XQuery
XML Information Set
XInclude
XML Pointer
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
JSON-WSP
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)
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
P3P
WS-ReliableMessaging
WS-Reliability
WS-RM Policy Assertion
Web Services Resource Framework
WS-Resource
WS-BaseFaults
WS-ServiceGroup
WS-ResourceProperties
WS-ResourceLifetime
WS-Transfer
WS-Fragment
Resource Representation SOAP Header Block
These specifications provide additional information to improve interoperability between vendor implementations.
WS-I Basic Profile
WS-I Basic Security Profile
Simple Soap Binding Profile
WS-BPEL
WS-CDL
Web Service Choreography Interface (WSCI)
WS-Choreography
XML Process Definition Language
Web Services Conversation Language (WSCL)
WS-BusinessActivity
WS-AtomicTransaction
WS-Coordination
WS-CAF
WS-Transaction
WS-Context
WS-CF
WS-TXM
WS-Management
WS-Management Catalog
WS-ResourceTransfer
WSDM
Web Services for Remote Portlets
WS-Provisioning Describes the APIs and Schemas necessary to facilitate interoperability between provisioning systems in a consistent manner using Web services
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
