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Future Standards

In Chapter 1, we provided an overview of the Web services technology stack. Subsequent chapters on SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI covered the standard (or de facto standard) technologies and specifications for the service messaging, service description, and service registration layers of the stack. For service security and service transactions layers, consensuses on standards are emerging and those standards were explained in the chapters on security and transactions, respectively Other areas of the stack either lack standard specifications or have competing standards sponsored by different industry groups. In this chapter, we discuss a few specifications that are possible future standards for Web services.

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