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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / MAY 19, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 20
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Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
SOAP 1.2 Is Good To Go
The W3C has announced that work on the SOAP 1.2 standard has been
completed.
Officials said the new spec is now a "Proposed Recommendation," the final step
before adoption.
The new release is a significant advance over SOAP 1.0 and SOAP 1.1, and
not
just an enhancement as its 1.2 designation might indicate, said Tim
Berners-Lee, W3C director, at the Gartner Web Services and Application
Integration conference underway this week in Los Angeles.
"Starting today, developers who may have hesitated to pick up SOAP 1.2
should
take a look," he stated during the formal unveiling of the new XML messaging
standard. "After resolving over 400 issues -- including over 150 [issues] from
SOAP 1.1 -- and delivering evidence of rigorous implementations, the W3C XML
Protocol Working Group has produced for final review a real SOAP standard,
SOAP 1.2."
The standard, as well as information on the seven implementations, is
available for review on the W3C Website at http://www.w3.org . According to
the announcement, the final review period ends June 7, at which time the new
SOAP standard will be presented to W3C members for adoption.
SOAP 1.2 comes in two parts, a Messaging Framework and Adjuncts.
The Messaging Framework set rules for constructing and processing SOAP
messages, as well as an extensibility framework so developers can use
extensions inside and outside the SOAP envelope. It also includes rules for
exchanging SOAP messages via protocols, including HTTP. The Adjuncts include
sets of rules for remote procedure calls (RPCs), for encoding SOAP messages,
for describing SOAP features and for SOAP bindings. It also sets a standard
for binding SOAP to HTTP 1.1 so SOAP messages can be exchanged via the
Web.
By Rich Seeley
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