18 Developing Web Services Using CICS, WMQ, and WMB
8. Transports
BEEP, the Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (formerly referred to as
BXXP), is a framework for building application protocols. It was standardized
by IETF and does for Internet protocols what XML does for data.
2.3.3 WS standards in CICS TS
Certainly CICS TS adheres to many of the specifications outlined in the previous
section, and the following are of particular interest to the development of Web
services in CICS:
Description and Discovery - in particular UDDI and WSDL.
WS-Transactions - the family of specifications that relate to transactional Web
services.
WS-Security - the family of specifications that relate to securing Web
services.
Messaging - the SOAP for CICS feature ...