Leading Web Services To Their Full Potential
by Hugo Haas, W3C

Table of contents

• Leading Web Services To Their Full Potential
• Overview
• History
• An example of a Web service: travel agent usage scenario
• Example (continued): advantages
• Challenges faced
• Integration to the World Wide Web
• The need for semantics
• Ontologies
• The Semantic Web
• Standardization work
• Web Services Activity
• Web Services Architecture
• Requirements of the Web services architecture
• Status of the Web Services Architecture Working Group
• Communicating between machines
• An XML-based protocol: SOAP version 1.2
• SOAP version 1.2 in a nutshell
• Status of the work on SOAP version 1.2
• Status of the work on SOAP version 1.2 (continued)
• A language to describe Web services: motivations
• Status of the Web Services Description Working Group
• Next steps
• References