Part II. Extended Web Services Specifications

This part of the book discusses the major extended Web services specifications, focusing on those most significant for SOA-enabled applications. The book does not describe every proposed Web services specification. Instead, we have picked the most important specifications for SOA-enabled applications.

What Are Extended Specifications?

An additional level of Web services technology is evolving that includes security, transactions, reliability, orchestration, and metadata management for extended SOA-based applications that involve integration and business process management. As Web services products include more and more of these features, an SOA based on Web services can be used for more and more kinds ...

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