Course Overview

There are a variety of specifications associated with java web services. These specifications are in varying degrees of maturity and are maintained or supported by various standards bodies and entities. These variety of specifications are the basic web services framework established by first-generation standards represented by WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI. Specifications may complement, overlap, and compete with each other. Web service specifications are occasionally referred to collectively as “WS-*”, though there is not a single managed set of specifications that this consistently refers to, nor a recognized owning body across them all.