New standard issued
The World Wide Web Consortium has issued a standard for extending the features of Web services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications.
Building on the open services standards from W3C, Web Services Policy enables developers to meet the requirement for secure transactions, reliable messaging, addressing metadata, and other scenarios, in modular fashion. The standard enables service to be extended without disruption or requiring changes to lower level service descriptions.
Experience with commercial Web services applications have made clear the need for a modular approach for extending the capabilities of a service. Without this it necessary to rewrite an entire service whenever application needs to be changed. Web Services Policy reduces this cost by connecting the core Web services standards, SOAP 1.2, WSDL 2.0, and XML Schema, to a growing set of extensions.
The Web Services Policy Working Group that pulled the new standard together includes Adobe Systems Inc; Axway Software; BEA Systems, Inc; CA; Fujitsu Limited; IBM; IONA Technologies, Inc.; JBoss Inc.; Layer 7 Technologies; Microsoft Corporation; Nokia; Nortel Networks; Oracle Corporation; SAP AG; Sonic Software; Sun Microsystems, Inc.; webMethods, Inc.; and WSO2.
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