- From: William A. Nagy <nagy@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 13:48:39 -0500
- To: xml-dist-app@w3c.org
The Web Services Inspection Language (WS-Inspection) specification provides an XML format for assisting in the inspection of a site for available services and a set of rules for how inspection related information should be made available for consumption. A WS-Inspection document provides a means for aggregating references to pre-existing service description documents which have been authored in any number of formats (including, but not limited to, WSDL, HTML, etc.) These inspection documents are then made available at the point-of-offering for the service, as well as through references which may be placed within a content medium such as HTML. The WS-Inspection specification provides a consolidation of concepts found in ADS and DISCO (two earlier proposals in this space) and, in conjunction with UDDI, attempts to address the full set of problems associated with Web services discovery and description retrieval. The WS-Inspection specification may be found at: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-wsilspec.html or http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsrvspec/html/ws-inspection.asp and implementations/tools/samples are available as part of IBM's Web Services Toolkit v2.4.1 which may be found at: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/webservicestoolkit or as part of Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net which may be found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/code/default.asp?url=/code/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/026/002/541/msdncompositedoc.xml -Bill Nagy nagy@watson.ibm.com
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