December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
264 pages
5h 59m
English
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Appendix A. Web Service Standardization
This appendix contains a listing of many of the better known standardization efforts (by category) currently being pursued that relate to web services in some way. A brief description is offered, but complete information is available through the information links provided.
Packaging Protocols
- SOAP/XML Protocol
Originally an acronym for the "Simple Object Access Protocol," now the basis for the W3C XML Protocol effort.
Version 1.1 of the specification is available at http://www.w3.org/tr/soap. The Version 1.2 working draft is available at http://www.w3.org/tr/soap12.
More information about SOAP and the W3C XML Protocol effort can be found by visiting the W3C XML Protocol working group home page at http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/.
- XML-RPC
The original manifestation of SOAP invented by Dave Winer of Userland software. This simple, popular protocol—while not officially a standard—has a significant, vocal user base in the open source community. Information is available at http://www.xmlrpc.org/.
- Jabber
Jabber is both a transport protocol and a simple packaging protocol that can be used in asynchronous peer-to-peer style web services. It too is not an official standard but is building a significant user and developer base. Information can be found by visiting the Jabber home page at http://www.jabber.org.
- DIME
The Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME) protocol is "a lightweight, binary encapsulation format that can be used to encapsulate multiple ...
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