Microsoft and IBM Unveil New XML Web Services Specification

📅 November 2, 2001 - Continuing their joint work to further the XML Web services family of interoperability specifications, IBM Corp. (ibm.com) and MicrosoftCorp. (microsoft.com) announced yesterday the Web Services Inspection specification.

The WS-Inspection specification defines how an application can discover anXML Web service description on a Web server, enabling developers to browseWeb servers for XML Web services. WS-Inspection complements the IBM- andMicrosoft-pioneered Universal Description, Discovery and Integration globaldirectory technology by facilitating the discovery of available services onWeb sites unlisted in the UDDI registries, and builds on Microsoft's SOAPDiscovery technology built into Visual Studio .NET. IBM and Microsoft expectto submit WS-Inspection to an appropriate standards body.
"Building on the SOAP Discovery technology Microsoft built into VisualStudio .NET, WS-Inspection is a natural extension of the Microsoft GlobalXML Web Services Architecture," said Philip DesAutels, product manager ofXML Web services strategy at Microsoft. "The joint work between IBM andMicrosoft to create WS-Inspection will make it much easier for developers towork with XML Web services."
As a method for XML Web service discovery, WS-Inspection provides:
A standard way to locate and retrieve Web Services DescriptionLanguage documents and other service descriptions by browsing a single WebserverThe capability for XML Web service providers to group sets ofrelated service descriptions, enabling interested parties to determine whichdescriptions are related to particular servicesA way to correlate XML Web services with other types of content,such as HTML pages. For example, a browser may download an HTML page thathas corresponding XML Web services of which both the user and the browserenvironment need to be made aware
WS-Inspection implementations are available with the latest version of theIBM Web Services ToolKit 2.4.1 and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. The WSTKcan be downloaded for free from IBM's alphaWorks Web site atalphaworks.ibm.com. Complementary articles on WS-Inspection can be found onIBM's developerWorks Web Services zone at:www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-wsilover/index.html.

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