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The international standards consortium OASIS on Wednesday unveiled plans of two working groups to develop new specifications for building web services.
The OASIS Web Services Notification Technical Committee plans to standardize the way web services interact, using a pattern-based approach that allows one web service to disseminate information to a set of others, without prior knowledge of those services.
The "notification pattern" has applications in system or device management or in commercial domains, such as electronic trading, said Peter Niblett of IBM, who is the proposed co-chair of the WSN committee.
"Our goal is to define a set of royalty-free, interoperable and modular specifications that allow this pattern to be modeled in an explicit and standardized fashion," Niblett said in a statement.
The WSN committee will coordinate efforts with the OASIS Web Services Resource Framework Technical Committee, which also launched a new effort on Wednesday. The WSRF Technical Committee plans to define a set of royalty-free, interoperable and modular specifications that allow the relationship between a Web service and its state to be modeled in an explicit, standard fashion.
Members of the OASIS WSN group plan to align their work to the implied resource pattern specified by WSRF and will make use of WSRF specifications concerning lifetime and properties.
Members of both committees include BEA Systems, BMC Software, Computer Associates International, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Novell.
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards is a global consortium that develops standards for electronic business.
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