Simple Soap Binding Profile (official abbreviation is SSBP) is a specification from the

Web Services Interoperability 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 specifications. WS-I did not define standards for web services; rather, i ...

industry consortium. It is intended as a support profile for the

WS-I Basic Profile {{Short description, Interoperability guidance for core web services specifications The WS-I Basic Profile (official abbreviation is BP), a specification from the Web Services Interoperability industry consortium (WS-I), provides interoperability gu ...

. This profile defines the way WSDL (

Web Services Description Language The Web Services Description Language (WSDL ) is an XML-based interface description language that is used for describing the functionality offered by a web service. The acronym is also used for any specific WSDL description of a web service (also ...

) documents are to bind operations to a specific transport protocol

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. The Basic Profile 1.0 included the content and function of the Simple Soap Binding Profile. In other words, the Basic Profile 1.0 is roughly equivalent to the Basic Profile 1.1 plus the Simple Soap Binding Profile 1.0. Now that the Simple Soap Binding Profile is a separate profile, other WS-I documents can re-use (reference) it.

External links

WS-I SSBP 1.0 Official specifications
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