Web Services Standards Bodies and Communities

Web Services Standards Bodies and Communities

Here are some Web Services standards bodies and communities that support Web Services implementation.

ebPML. http://www.ebpml.org/

OASIS. http://www.oasis-open.org/

W3C. http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

WS-I. http://www.ws-i.org/

SOAP-Specific

Here is a list of SOAP-specific resources.

Apach SOAP. http://xml.apache.org

DevelopMentor. http://www.develop.com/soap/

SOAPClient. http://www.soapclient.com/

SOAPLite. http://www.soaplite.com/

SOAPWeblog. http://soap.weblogs.com/

UDDI-Specific

Some UDDI-specific resources. UDDI has some good technical white papers on best practices.

UDDI.org. http://www.uddi.org/ (Now under OASIS. Refer to http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/uddi-spec/)

jUDDI.org. http://www.juddi.org/

Web Services Security

There are an increasing number of Web Services security resources. More references can be found in the Web Services security chapter.

OASIS Web Services Security TC. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wss/

RSA. http://www.rsasecurity.com/

Web Services Security Forum. RSA. http://www.rsasecurity.com/

XML Trust Center. http://www.xmltrustcenter.org/index.htm

Miscellaneous

These URLs contain some other categories, including security (such as XML Trust Center) and Web Services developer tools (such as Eclipse).

BPEL4WS. http://www.ebpml.org/bpel4ws.htm

SOAP-WRC/James Snell. http://www.soap-wrc.com/webservices/

TechMetrix. http://www.techmetrix.com/trendmarkers/topics/tmktopic.php?topic=asp

Web Services Security Forum. http://www.xwss.org/index.jsp

XML Trust Center. http://www.xmltrustcenter.org/index.htm