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In March 2006, HP, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft announced plans to address customers' concerns around competing management specifications. The roadmap provided a high-level overview of the strategy being used to achieve the goal of having a single set of specifications for resource access/manipulation, events and management. As the work progresses specifications will be made available for public review and feedback. The first of these specifications is WS-ResourceTransfer.
WS-ResourceTransfer (WS-RT) is a convergence of WS-ResourceLifetime, WS-ResourceProperties, and parts of WS-Management to standardize how to use Web services for resource creation, access, manipulation, destruction and as well as managing its lifecycle. WS-RT leverages the new extension mechanism defined in the recently updated WS-Transfer specification to define a more fined-grained message protocol for fragment-level interactions with resources. WS-RT represents the first step in the ongoing reconciliation process -- the WS community can expect to see the next stage of the roadmap shortly.
The authors are committed to providing this work as the base for the next generation of standardization in this area. Consistent with previous roadmap efforts, the development, interoperability testing and standardization process will take time and they welcome the input and feedback from the Web service community.
Customers and vendors should continue investing in solutions and products based on the implementations of the current specifications related to this work. The vendors are assuring that this harmonization of the competing specifications will be a smooth evolution from today's environment and provide a simplified technology base for the future. As the new specifications are finalized a clear migration path will be defined.
Get the specification and related material
| Description | Date | Access method |
|---|---|---|
| WS-ResourceTransfer specification (PDF) | August 2006 | HTTP download |
| WS-ResourceTransfer specification (ZIP) | August 2005 | HTTP download |
| WS-RT WSDL (WSDL) | August, 2006 | HTTP download |
| WS-RT XSD (XSD) | August, 2006 | HTTP download |
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