Web Services at W3C and the Status of SOAP Version 1.2
by Hugo Haas, W3C

Table of contents

• Web Services at W3C and the Status of SOAP Version 1.2
• Overview
• History
• Standardization work
• Web Services Activity
• Design of the Web Services Architecture
• Requirements of the Web services architecture
• Integration to the World Wide Web
• Status of the Web Services Architecture Working Group
• A language to describe Web services
• Status of the Web Services Description Working Group
• Communicating between machines
• An XML-based protocol: SOAP version 1.2
• SOAP 1.2 in a nutshell
• SOAP 1.2 extensibility
• SOAP 1.2 adjuncts
• Status of the work on SOAP version 1.2
• Documents produced by the XML Protocol Working Group
• Next steps
• References