In the Web services protocol stack, BPEL4WS is a layer on top of Web Services Description Language (WSDL). It uses WSDL to specify actions that should take place in a business process, and to ...

And, of course, muscling a BPM standard into the Web services stack would be yet another opportunity for Microsoft and IBM to marginalize Sun and the protocols it favors. However the politics play ...

An ongoing technical debate over the value of advanced Web services protocols sparked up again ... his view on when to use the full WS-* "stack" or when to use REST. Microsoft has implemented ...

Wrangling among vendors seeking competitive advantage is slowing the adoption of protocols to support commercially viable Web services, contends Ray Valdes, research ...

SOAP can form the foundation layer of a web services protocol stack, providing a basic messaging framework upon which web services can be built. Python is a widely used general-purpose, high-level ...