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<h1 class="h1title">Web Services Activity</h1>

<p class="c2"><a href="#groups">Groups</a> · <a href="#news">News</a> ·
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<p>The World Wide Web is more and more used for application to application
communication. The programmatic interfaces made available are referred to as
<em>Web services</em>.</p>

<p><span class="summary">The goal of the Web Services Activity is to develop
a set of technologies in order to lead Web services to their full potential.
The <a href="Activity">Web Services Activity Statement</a> explains the W3C's
work on this topic in more detail.</span></p>

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<ul class="news">
  <li>
    <div class="item" id="x2011-04-28">
      <span class="date">2011-04-28</span>: <span
      class="description">The <a href="ra/">Web Services Resource Access
      Working Group</a> published seven Candidate Recommendations:
      <a href="/TR/2011/CR-ws-enumeration-20110428/">Enumeration (WS-Enumeration)</a>,
      <a href="/TR/2011/CR-ws-event-descriptions-20110428/">Event Descriptions (WS-EventDescriptions)</a>,
      <a href="/TR/2011/CR-ws-eventing-20110428/">Eventing (WS-Eventing)</a>,
      <a href="/TR/2011/CR-ws-fragment-20110428/">Fragment (WS-Fragment)</a>,
      <a href="/TR/2011/CR-ws-metadata-exchange-20110428/">Metadata Exchange (WS-MetadataExchange)</a>,
      <a href="/TR/2011/CR-ws-soap-assertions-20110428/">SOAP Assertions (WS-SOAPAssertions)</a>, and
      <a href="/TR/2011/CR-ws-transfer-20110428/">Transfer (WS-Transfer)</a>. The review period ends 20 May 2011.
     </span>
     </div>
  </li>
  <li>
    <div class="item" id="x2009-09-24">
      <span class="date">2009-09-24</span>: <span
      class="description">The <a href="ra/">Web Services Resource Access
      Working Group</a> published five Working Drafts:
      <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-transfer-20090924">WS-Transfer</a>,
      <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-resource-transfer-20090924/">WS-Resource Transfer</a>,
      <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-enumeration-20090924">WS-Enumeration</a>,
      <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-metadata-exchange-20090924/">WS-Metadata Exchange</a> and
      <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-eventing-20090924">WS-Eventing</a>.
     </span>
     </div>
  </li>
  <li>
    <div class="item" id="x2009-07-10">
      <span class="date">2009-07-10</span>: <span
      class="description">The <a href="databinding/">XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group</a>,
      the <a href="chor/">Web Services Choreography Working Group</a> and the
      <a href="/2000/xp/Group/">XML Protocol Working Group</a> were closed.
     </span>
     </div>
  </li>
  <li>
     <div class="item" id="x2009-06-04">
     <span class="date">2009-06-04</span>: <span
     class="description">The <a href="soapjms/">SOAP-JMS Binding
     Working Group</a> published <a
     class='link' href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-soapjms-20090604"><span
     class='title'>SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0</span></a> as a Candidate Recommendation.
     The review period ends <strong>31 August 2009</strong>
     </span>
     </div>
  </li>
  <li>
    <div class="item" id="x2009-03-17">
      <span class="date">2009-03-17</span>: <span
      class="description">The <a href="ra/">Web Services Resource Access
      Working Group</a> published five Working Drafts:
      <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-transfer-20090317">WS-Transfer</a>,
      <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-resource-transfer-20090317/">WS-Resource Transfer</a>,
      <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-enumeration-20090317">WS-Enumeration</a>,
      <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-metadata-exchange-20090317/">WS-Metadata Exchange</a> and
      <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-eventing-20090317">WS-Eventing</a>.
     </span>
     </div>
  </li>
  <li>
     <div class="item" id="x2008-11-21">
     <span class="date">2008-11-21</span>: <span
     class="description">The <a href="soapjms/">SOAP-JMS Binding
     Working Group</a> published <a
     class='link' href=
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-soapjms-20081121/"><span
     class='title'>SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0</span></a> as a Last Call Working Draft.
     The review period ends <strong>13 January 2009</strong>
     </span>
     </div>
  </li>

  <li>
     <div class="item" id="x2008-11-07">
       <span class="date">2008-11-07</span>: <span
       class="description">The <a href="ra/">Web Services Resource Access
       Working Group</a> has been created. See its <a
       class='link' href="http://www.w3.org/2008/11/ws-ra-charter.html">charter</a>.
       The mission of the WS Resource Access WG is to produce W3C Recommendations for a set of
       Web Services specifications by refining the WS-Transfer, WS-ResourceTransfer, WS-Enumeration,
       WS-MetadataExchange and WS-Eventing Member Submissions, addressing existing issues in
       those specifications, implementation experience and interoperability feedback from implementers
       and considering composition with other Web services standards.
     </span>
     </div>
  </li>

  <li>
     <div class="item" id="x2008-07-23">
     <span class="date">2008-07-23</span>: <span
     class="description">The <a href="soapjms/">SOAP-JMS Binding
     Working Group</a> published <a
     class='link' href=
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-soapjms-20080723/"><span
     class='title'>SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0</span></a> as a First Public Working Draft.
     </span>
     </div>
  </li>

  <li>
     <div class="item" id="x2008-04-11">
     <span class="date">2008-04-11</span>: <span
     class="description">The proposed charter for the <span
     class='title'><a class='link'
     href="/2007/08/soap-jms-charter.html">SOAP-JMS Binding Working
     Group</a> has been created</span>. The mission of the SOAP-JMS
     Binding Working Group is to produce a W3C Recommendation for how
     SOAP should bind to a transport that supports the Java&trade; Message
     Service (JMS) api by refining the "<a href='http://www.w3.org/Submission/SOAPJMS/'>SOAP over Java&trade; Message
     Service 1.0</a>" Member Submission. In the case of SOAP 1.2 this
     binding must use the SOAP Protocol Binding Framework defined by
     the XML Protocol Working Group.
     </span>
     </div>
  </li>

  <li>
     <div class="item" id="x2008-03-28">
     <span class="date">2008-03-28</span>: <span
     class="description">The <a href="databinding/">XML Schema
     Patterns for Databinding Working Group</a> published <a
     class='link' href=
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xmlschema-patterns-20080328/"><span
     class='title'>Basic XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version
     1.0</span></a> as a Last Call Working Draft. The review period
     ends <strong>30 April 2008</strong>
     </span>
     </div>
  </li>

  <li>
     <div class="item" id="x2007-12-26">
     <span class="date">2007-12-26</span>: <span
     class="description">The proposed charter for the <span
     class='title'><a class='link'
     href="/2007/05/ws-core-charter.html">Web Services Core Working
     Group</a> will not be approved by the Director</span>, due to its
     incompatibilities with the W3C Patent Policy. Maintenance of
     existing W3C Recommendations in Web Services will be accomplished
     through ad-hoc Groups.
     </span>
     </div>
  </li>

  <li>
     <div class="item" id="x2007-12-21">
     <span class="date">2007-12-21</span>: <span
     class="description">The <span class='title'><a class='link'
     href="/XML/EXI/">Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Working
     Group</a> has published three documents</span>: First Public Working
     Drafts of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-exi-best-practices-20071219/">EXI
     Best Practices</a> and <a
     href="/TR/2007/WD-exi-primer-20071219/">EXI Primer</a>, as well
     as a Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-exi-20071219/">EXI
     Format 1.0</a>. EXI is a very compact representation for the <a
     href="/TR/2004/REC-xml-infoset-20040204/">Extensible Markup
     Language (XML) Information Set</a> that is intended to
     simultaneously optimize performance and the utilization of
     computational resources. Using a relatively simple algorithm,
     which is amenable to fast and compact implementation, and a small
     set of data types, it reliably produces efficient encodings of
     XML event streams. The primer and best practices documents
     complement the format specification. The best practices document
     also presents information suitable for the general reader
     interested in EXI's intended role in the expanding Web.  </span>
     </div>
  </li>
</ul>

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href='history.html'>history page</a>.</p>

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height="30" alt="" /><a id="documents" name="documents"></a>
 <a id="drafts" name="drafts">W3C Recommendations</a></h2>

<p>A complete list of current W3C publications and the latest revision
of this technical report can be found in the <a href='../../TR/'>W3C
technical reports index</a>.</p>

<ul>
  <li><a
  href="../../TR/sawsdl">Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema</a></li>
  <li><a href="../../TR/soap12-mtom">SOAP Message
  Transmission Optimization Mechanism</a></li>
  <li><a href='../../TR/soap12-rep'>SOAP Resource
  Representation Header</a></li>
  <li><a href="../../TR/soap12-part0/">SOAP Version 1.2 Part 0: Primer</a></li>
  <li><a href="../../TR/soap12-part1/">SOAP Version 1.2 Part 1: Messaging
    Framework</a></li>
  <li><a href="../../TR/soap12-part2/">SOAP Version 1.2 Part 2: Adjuncts</a></li>
  <li><a href="../../TR/soap12-testcollection">SOAP Version 1.2 Specification
    Assertions and Test Collection</a></li>
  <li><a href='../../TR/ws-addr-core'>Web Services
  Addressing 1.0 - Core</a></li>
  <li><a href='../../TR/ws-addr-metadata'>Web Services
  Addressing 1.0 - Metadata</a></li>
  <li><a href='../../TR/ws-addr-soap'>Web Services
  Addressing 1.0 - SOAP Binding</a></li>
  <li><a
  href="../../TR/wsdl20-primer">Web
  Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 0:
  Primer</a></li>
  <li><a
  href="../../TR/wsdl20"><span
  class='title'>Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version
  2.0</span> Part 1: Core Language</a></li>
  <li><a
  href="../../TR/wsdl20-adjuncts">Web
  Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 2:
  Adjuncts</a> as Recommendation.</li>
  <li><a href='../../TR/ws-policy'>Web Services Policy 1.5 - Framework</a></li>
  <li><a href='../../TR/ws-policy-attach'>Web Services Policy 1.5 - Attachment</a></li>
</ul>

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width="30" height="30" alt="" />
 <a id="groups" name="groups">Groups</a></h2>

<p>The Activity, coordinated by one <a href="cg/">Coordination Group</a>, is currently composed of seven Working Groups:</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="chor/">Web Services Choreography Working Group</a></li>
  <li><a href="policy/">Web Services Policy Working Group</a></li>
  <li><a href="../../2000/xp/Group/">XML Protocol Working Group</a></li>
  <li><a href="databinding/">XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group</a></li>
  <li><a href="soapjms/">SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group</a></li>
  <li><a href="ra/">Web Services Resource Access</a></li>
</ul>
<p>and one Interest Group:</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="swsig/">Semantic Web Services Interest Group</a></li>
</ul>

<p>Previous Groups that have finished their work in this Activity are:</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="sawsdl/">Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language Working Group</a></li>
  <li><a href="addr/">Web Services Addressing Working Group</a></li>
  <li><a href="arch/">Web Services Architecture Working Group</a></li>
  <li><a href="desc/">Web Services Description Working Group</a></li>
</ul>

<p>Detailed information about the work of each of these groups can be found
on their respective home pages.</p>

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height="30" alt="" />
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<p>General technical discussions and announcements about Web services happen
on the <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws/">www-ws publicly
archived mailing list</a>, by sending email to <strong><a
href="mailto:www-ws@w3.org">www-ws@w3.org</a></strong>.</p>

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<p>For specific Working Group discussions, please refer to the <a
href="#groups">Groups' home pages</a>:</p>

<table
summary="List of public mailing lists was by the Web Services Activity Groups"
border="1">
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <th>Mailing list</th>
      <th>Purpose</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <th colspan="2" align="center">
	General discussion
      </th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><a
        href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws/">www-ws@w3.org</a></td>
      <td>General Web services discussions</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <th colspan="2" align="center">
	Specific areas
      </th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><a
        href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-semann/">public-ws-semann@w3.org</a></td>
      <td>Discussion list for the <a href="sawsdl/">Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language Working Group</a></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><a
        href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sws-ig/">public-sws-ig@w3.org</a></td>
      <td>Discussion list for the <a href="swsig/">Semantic Web Services Interest Group</a></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><a
        href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-addressing/">public-ws-addressing@w3.org</a></td>
      <td>Discussion list for the <a href="addr/">Web Services Addressing Working Group</a></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><a
        href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-chor/">public-ws-chor@w3.org</a></td>
      <td>Discussion list for the <a href="chor/">Web Services Choreography Working Group</a></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><a
        href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/">public-ws-policy@w3.org</a></td>
      <td>Discussion list for the <a href="policy/">Web Services Policy Working Group</a></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><a
        href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xsd-databinding/">public-xsd-databinding@w3.org</a></td>
      <td>Discussion list for the <a href="databinding/">XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group</a></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><a
        href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-arch/">www-ws-arch@w3.org</a></td>
      <td>Discussion of the <a href='/TR/ws-arch/'>Web Services
	Architecture</a> and other documents produced by <a href="arch/">Web Services Architecture Working Group</a></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><a
        href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-cg/">www-ws-cg@w3.org</a></td>
      <td>Public list for the <a href="cg/">Web Services Coordination Group</a></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><a
        href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/">www-ws-desc@w3.org</a></td>
      <td>Discussion list for the specifications produced by the <a href="desc/">Web Services Description Working Group</a></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><a
        href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-soap-jms/">public-soap-jms@w3.org</a></td>
      <td>Discussion list for the specifications produced by the <a href="soapjms/">SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group</a></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><a
        href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/">xml-dist-app@w3.org</a></td>
      <td>Discussion list for the <a href="../../2000/xp/Group/">XML Protocol Working Group</a></td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

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