Another Busy Time for Web Services Standards

It's been another busy few weeks in the Web Services Standards Team at Microsoft recently! Last week, we did another republication of the Devices Profile and WS-Policy specs. Today the W3C acknowledged and published our Member Submissions of the WS-Eventing, WS-Transfer and WS-Enumeration specifications, along with a big list of co-submitters. The W3C Staff comments on WS-Transfer make interesting reading - and really summarize what WS-Transfer is all about: WS-Transfer can therefore be seen as an underlying protocol-independent version of HTTP, i.e. bringing the capabilities and properties of the Web and HTTP in contexts where HTTP is not used. While the resources manipulated are entities that provide an XML representation, the use of the SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism along with WS-Transfer would allow one to efficiently manipulate other types of entities such as binary ones. WS-Transfer does not have all the features of HTTP regarding the manipulation of ...

08:52:50 March 15, 2006, Wednesday (PST) Source: TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblog

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