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The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) was an industry consortium created in 2002 and chartered to promote interoperability amongst the stack of
web services A web service (WS) is either: * a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the Internet, or * a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a n ...
specifications A specification often refers to a set of documented requirements to be satisfied by a material, design, product, or service. A specification is often a type of technical standard. There are different types of technical or engineering specificati ...
. WS-I did not define standards for web services; rather, it created guidelines and tests for interoperability. In July 2010, WS-I joined the
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, SAP,
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, Fujitsu,
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) and two elected members (
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and webMethods). After it joined OASIS, other organizations have joined the WS-I technical committee including
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, JumpSoft and
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. The organization's deliverables included profiles, sample applications that demonstrate the profiles' use, and test tools to help determine profile conformance.


WS-I Profiles

According to WS-I, a profile is
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.
* WS-I Basic Profile * WS-I Basic Security Profile * Simple Soap Binding Profile


WS-I Profile Compliance

The WS-I is not a certifying authority; thus, every vendor can claim to be compliant to a profile. However the use of the test tool is required before a company can claim a product to be compliant. Se
WS-I Trademarks and Compliance claims requirements


See also

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Web Services Resource Framework Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) is a family of OASIS-published specifications for web services. Major contributors include the Globus Alliance and IBM. A web service by itself is nominally stateless, i.e., it retains no data between inv ...
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OASIS In ecology, an oasis (; : oases ) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environmentWS-I consortium's Home Page

WS-I OASIS member section Home page
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Web services Interoperability