Submission request to W3C (W3C Team Comment)
We ask that this submission request be known as WSCL.
This document specifies the Web Services Conversation Language WSCL. WSCL allows defining the abstract interfaces of web services, i.e. the business level conversations or public processes supported by a web service. WSCL specifies the XML documents being exchanged, and the allowed sequencing of these document exchanges. WSCL conversation definitions are themselves XML documents, and can therefore be interpreted by web services infrastructure and development tools. WSCL may be used in conjunction with other service description languages like WSDL; for example, to provide protocol binding information for abstract interfaces, or to specify the abstract interfaces supported by a concrete service.
Statement of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP):
HP has a patent application that is pending that may result in claims that are essential to this contribution. If this contribution is adopted in a W3C Recommendation, then HP will make available to any implementer of the Recommendation a royalty-free license to any intellectual property rights that HP may have that are essential to implementing this contribution, for the purpose of implementing the Recommendation. One condition of the license is a grant of a reciprocal license on the same terms (including being available to other implementers of the Recommendation) to the implementer's intellectual property rights that are essential to implementation of the Recommendation.
This contribution is being provided "AS IS", and HP EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES REGARDING THIS CONTRIBUTION, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY THAT THIS CONTRIBUTION DOES NOT VIOLATE THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS OR IS FIT FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
The following are registered marks referred to in this request or the submission (state ownership and terms where known): There are no registered marks referred to.
The submission may be distributed within the membership of the W3C free of any fee. The submission may be distributed publicly free of any fee under the redistribution terms expressed in the W3C copyright statement.
The following points should be noted as regards licensable technology involved in any third party implementations of the technology specified in the submission: Concerning WSCL the intellectual property rights outlined above apply. Concerning WSDL (also mentioned in the specification) the intellectual property rights of WSDL apply.
We suggest that the Consortium posts this submission as a note on the W3C Technical Reports website.
We expect this submission to be used as input for the Web Services Description Language working group of W3C. As such, any future work related to WSCL will take place in such a working group.
Should any changes be required to the document, we expect these changes to happen when parts or all of WSCL are used in any W3C working group. Subsequent changes are then under the control of that working group.
Inquiries from the public or press about this submission should be directed to: Jim Bell, jim_bell@hp.com
4 February 2002
Jim Bell