By
Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com
November 14, 2002, 2:31 PM PT
"The Web's leading standards group on Thursday issued a trio of documents on the architecture of Web services and launched an unprecedented effort to standardize Web services lingo.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) put out its first working draft of the Web Services Architecture document and the fourth of Web Services Architecture Requirements. Web services allow developers to build software so that companies with different computing systems can interact and conduct transactions.
The architecture draft is a blueprint of what Web services consist of and how they interact with each other. The document attempts to define the relationships between a system requesting a service and a service provider, and how available services advertise themselves and are "discovered."
The requirements draft establishes what topics the architecture draft must cover.
In addition, the consortium published the first working draft of the Web Services Glossary with the goal of standardizing the growing lingo surrounding Web services."
This article in CNET provides a good discussion of Web Services and links to the W3C white papers on Web Services that were published in mid November.
