How to check whether web services are compliant with industry stan

[Sarika Jathar]

Hi all,

I want to check whether a web services are compliant with industry
standards and implementation guidelines.
Basically I am interested in checking whether a Web service fully support
the following industry XML Web service standards when exposing or consuming
programmable functionality:
XML Web service standards:
• XML Schema 1.0
• SOAP 1.1
• WSDL 1.1
• UDDI 2.0
Can you please provide me some pointers?
Waiting for favorable response.
Thanks in advance.

-Sarika

 

[Dan Rogers]

Hi Sarika,

The best way to assure compliance with these things is to be in touch with
the web service author/provider and ask. A good question to ask is "are
you WS-I basic profile compliant?" - if they don't know what that is, then
direct them to http://www.ws-i.org, and look together at the requirements
for basic profile compliance.

As a side note, there is nothing that a web service author has to do to be
UDDI compliant - UDDI may be useful for locating a web service or
registering it's interfaces, etc, but there is no direct connection between
UDDI and a web service, and a web service can happily exist without having
any UDDI registration. Similarly, a web service can function very nicely
wihout having any WSDL file published - WSDL helps non-affiliated third
parties generate reasonable proxies, and so it is a friendly thing for a WS
provider to do to provide a WSDL description of their service to
prospective partners.

Hope this helps,

Dan Rogers
Microsoft Corporation
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