The Web Services Interoperability Organization is an open industry effort. Its charter is to promote Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) across platforms, applications, and programming languages. Its goal is to be a standards integrator to help web services advance in a structured, coherent manner. WS-I has organized the standards that will affect the interoperability of web services into a “stack” based on functionalities.

There are many standards that need to be coordinated to address basic web service interoperability issues and the standards are all being developed in parallel and independently. To overcome these issues, the WS-I has developed the concept of a profile. The WS-I defines a profile as follows:

A set of named web services specifications at specific revision levels, together with a set of implementation and interoperability guidelines recommending how the specifications may be used to develop interoperable web services. ^*

Guidance

• Web-service environments should adhere to the WS-I standards for Basic Profile.
• Use the Document Literal style for all data transferred using SOAP where the document is a W3 Organization’s Document Object Model (DOM).
• Do not pass DOM documents as strings.

Profile Standards

• WS-I Basic Profile
• WS-I Basic Security Profile

See also

• WSRF

External links

• WS-I Home Page
• SOAP definition

Web services

WS-I