Web Services Architecture Working Group
- Goal: Define the Web services architecture
- What are we trying to achieve?
- What technology is needed?
- Define scope of each technology and their relationships
- Task Forces
- architectural principle harvesting
- usage scenarios
- security
- reliability
- Completed work in 2004.
[A Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. It has an interface described in a machine-processable format (specifically WSDL). Other systems interact with the Web service in a manner prescribed by its description using SOAP messages, typically conveyed using HTTP with an XML serialization in conjunction with other Web-related standards.]