Web services protocol stack

A web service protocol stack is a

interact with each other. A web service protocol stack typically stacks four protocols:

• (Service) Transport Protocol: responsible for transporting messages between network applications and includes protocols such as
  SMTP, FTP, as well as the more recent Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol
  (BEEP).
• (XML) Messaging Protocol: responsible for encoding messages in a common
  SOAP
  .
• (Service) Description Protocol: used for describing the public interface to a specific Web service. The WSDL interface format is typically used for this purpose.
• (Service) Discovery Protocol: centralizes services into a common registry so that network Web services can publish their location and description, and makes it easy to discover what services are available on the network.
  Universal Description Discovery and Integration
  (UDDI) was intended for this purpose, but it has not been widely adopted.

The protocol stack can also include a range of higher-level protocols such as Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) or WS-Security for security extensions.

External links

• Alex Nghiem (2003) The Basic Web Services Stack
• Ethan Cerami (2002) Top Ten FAQs for Web Services Archived 2007-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
• innoQ (2007) Web Services Standards as of Q1 2007
• Lawrence Wilkes (updated Feb 2005) The Web Services Protocol Stack
• Pavel Kulchenko (2002) Web Services Acronyms, Demystified