Don Box's Web Services Kernel
Steve Maine, as usual, has as very thoughtful summary of the core specifications of the Web Services Architecture as presented by Don Box in his talk, WS-Why?, at the XML Developer's Conference. What, according to Don Box, are the core specifications?
- XML: Common data model and way of looking at the word
- SOAP: Orthogonal content and extensibility
- WS-Addressing: Transport-agnostic view of a message's destination and source
- WS-MetadataExchange: Self-Description
- XSD/WSDL: Contract description languages
If any of these specifications are not already well-known to you be sure to peruse Microsoft's introduction to the Web Services Architecture witepaper.