- Web Services
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Web-oriented software component methodology that deals with modular, self-contained, self-describing , reusable software components whose public interfaces are described using XML. They are an enabling technology for providing applications with software functionality in a standardized form from within an enterprise or from third-party service providers.
- Web Services Gateway
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Application-level firewall for application-to-Web service interactions that go outside the corporate firewall.
- WebEx
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A form of Web-based videoconferencing.
- Web Logic
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BEA s brand name for its family of Web-oriented products.
- WebSphere
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IBM s umbrella brand name for most of its offerings pertaining to the Web, e-business, Java, and Web services.
- Web-to-Host
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Technology to integrate pre-Web legacy applications with the Web.
- WS-Coordination
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Extensible protocols for coordinating the actions of distributed applications, especially in the context of completing a specific business process.
- WSDL
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XML derivative that defines the high-level functionality of a Web service, in terms of its external I/O interface, and describes how that Web service can be accessed over the Web.
- WSFL
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Now superseded by BPEL4WS.
- WSIA
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A specification for adding GUIs to Web services that is now being amalgamated into WSRP.
- WS-Inspection
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Complements UDDI and WSDL and allows Web-services requester to drill down further into the services offered by a provider.
- WS-Policy
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Framework to describe and communicate the policies of Web services, including service requirements, preferences, and capabilities.
- WSRP
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IBM s proposal for Web services with their own built-in GUIs.
- WS-Security
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Enhancement to SOAP to provide message integrity, confidentiality, and authentication.
- WS-Transaction
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Works with WS-Coordination to monitor the success or failure of short- or long- term transactions.
- WS-Trust
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Builds on top of WS-Security to cater for security token exchange and multidomain credential management.
- WSXL
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Web services “centric component model for interactive Web applications that is designed to achieve two main goals: enable businesses to deliver interactive Web applications through multiple distribution channels and enable new services or applications to be created by leveraging other interactive applications across the Web.