This activity proposal is public.
This proposal contains a modification of the existing Web Services Activity to include work on how SOAP should bind to a transport that supports the Java™ Message Service (JMS) API. It proposes the creation of a new SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group (see draft charter) to accomplish the necessary tasks.
W3C launched the Web Services Activity at the beginning of 2002,
following a W3C workshop on Web services,
with the goal (see previous Web Services
activity proposal) to ensure development of a Web services
architecture based on XML, fitting into the Web
architecture
.
Since that time, the Web Services Working Groups produced 17 W3C Recommendations and around 18 Working Group Notes. In February 2007, some participants at the Web of Services for Enterprise Computing workshop recommended to ensure proper binding of Web services specifications with protocols others than HTTP, more specifically FTP and JMS. This proposal is targeted to address the JMS API.
The work of binding Web Services the JMS API to Web Services involves doing a binding of the SOAP protocol, as well as extending the WSDL language to add the descriptions needed for JMS. It doesn't quite fit in either the XML Protocol Working Group, nor a renewed WSDL Working Group. Thus, the proposal is to create a dedicated Working Group for this work.
As mentioned previously, several participants, most notably from the user communities, expressed interest in defining such a binding, so that a WSDL description can then be reused across Web Services over JMS implementations. A set of vendors already started such effort on their own and approached W3C to finish the work.
The Web Services community using JMS will benefit from having this binding.
Yes. A large part of the interested parties at the W3C Workshop are
already involved in W3C. See also the accepted position
papers at the workshop. It should be highlighted that Sun
Microsystems, author of the Java™ Message Service specification,
is a co-submitter of the SOAP over Java™
Message Service 1.0
Member Submission.
We expect a small but sufficient level of participation in this effort to make it successful and efficient.
There are no known competing efforts at this time.
This work item has been on our timetable for more than a year now.
The scope of the work is outlined in the charter of the SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group.
The proposed Group is expected to remain until 31 December 2010, at the minimum. The W3C Recommendation is expected to be produced by April 2009. The remaining amount of time is dedicated for maintenance work only.
Since this work item doesn't quite fit in existing Groups, this proposal introduced the SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group in the Web Services Activity.
The Web Services community expects to coordinate with other activities when necessary, through Coordination Groups.
The other Groups in the Web Services Activity are not addressed by this proposal.
This proposal would extend the Web Services activity until 31 December 2010. See also the summary of the Web Services Activity table below for details per Working/Interest Groups.
No external funding is expected to sustain the SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group. A minimal amount of Team resources (0.15 FTE) is expected to be dedicated to the new Group.
| Group | Chair | Team Contact | Charter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Semantic Web Services Interest Group | Bijan Parsia | Carine Bournez | Chartered until 29 February 2008 |
| Web Services Coordination Group | Philippe Le Hégaret | Yves Lafon | Chartered until 31 December 2009 |
| Web Services Choreography Working Group | Martin Chapman, Steve Ross-Talbot | Yves Lafon | Chartered until 30 June 2008 |
| Web Services Policy Working Group | Paul Cotton, Christopher Ferris | Philippe Le Hégaret, Felix Sasaki | Chartered until 30 June 2008 |
| XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group | Paul Downey | Yves Lafon | Chartered until 31 March 2008 |
| XML Protocol Working Group | Christopher Ferris | Yves Lafon | Chartered until 30 June 2008 |
| SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group | Roland Merrick | Yves Lafon, Philippe Le Hégaret | Proposed until 31 December 2010 |