TABLE OF CONTENTS Part IV provides more background on software technology and terminology that can be used in a service-oriented architecture. Chapter 14 provides additional details on specifications used in this book. Chapter 15 is a quick reference guide for software technology related to service-oriented architectures.
This chapter provides additional details of some of the specifications discussed in this book. It starts out by providing a brief background on each of the organizations working on specifications related to Web Services. Then a matrix is provided that shows the various specifications and the organizations working on each specification. The latter part of the chapter provides details on important specifications:
Web Services specifications: The most relevant specifications directly related to Web Services are included in this section.
XML specifications: XML plays a significant role in Web Services. This section provides a brief background on many of the relevant XML specifications.
XML vocabularies: Various industry groups have been developing the XML version of their respective vocabularies in order to take advantage of the XML messaging capability of Web Services. This section provides a sampling of those vocabularies.
This section provides a brief background on many of the important consortia and standards organizations working on specifications related to Web Services. At one time, software standards needed to be approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) or the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The last decade or so, however, has seen the...
