- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <henrikn@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 14:01:47 -0700
- To: <www-ws@w3.org>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>, <soapbuilders@yahoogroups.com>, <SOAP@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM>
For your enjoyment here are three new Web Services specs [1] showing some ideas in the area of SOAP routing, message encapsulation, and process orchestration: 1) SOAP Routing Protocol (SOAP-RP) is a simple SOAP-based protocol for routing SOAP messages over a variety of protocols like TCP, UDP, HTTP etc. It can be used for one-way messaging, two-way messaging like request/response as well as peer-to-peer conversations, and so on. 2) Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME) is a lightweight, binary encapsulation format that can be used to encapsulate multiple documents of arbitrary type and size into a single message construct. It is used by SOAP-RP as the encapsulation mechanism when exchanged directly over TCP or UDP in order to support encapsulation of attachments to the SOAP-RP message as well as to provide efficient message delimiting. 3) Web Services for Business Process Design (XLANG) is the XML business process language used in BizTalk Server. It provides a way to orchestrate applications and XML Web services into larger-scale, federated applications by enabling developers to aggregate even the largest applications as components in a long-lived business process. You can find links to the specs at [1]. The relationship between these specs and Web Services in general were described in the Web Services Framework paper [2] presented at the recent W3C Web Services Workshop [3]. DevelopMentor has started some discussion lists for this -- see [4], [5] and [6] for details. Sorry for the cross-posting - please don't respond to this mail on all aliases! Have fun, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen mailto:henrikn@microsoft.com [1] http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/xml_wsspecs/default.aspx [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/03/WSWS-popa/paper51 [3] http://www.w3.org/2001/04/wsws-proceedings/ibm-ms-framework/ [4] http://discuss.develop.com/dime.html [5] http://discuss.develop.com/soap-rp.html [6] http://discuss.develop.com/xlang.html
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