Web Services Policy Attachment

Level: Advanced

Contributors: IBM, BEA Systems, Microsoft, SAP AG, Sonic Software, VeriSign

01 May 2003
Updated 09 Mar 2006

WS-Policy provides a general purpose model and syntax to describe and communicate the policies of a Web service.

The Web Services Policy Framework (WS-Policy) specification defines an abstract model and an XML-based expression grammar for policies. This specification, Web Services Policy Attachment (WS-PolicyAttachment), defines two general-purpose mechanisms for associating such policies with the subjects to which they apply. This specification also defines how these general-purpose mechanisms can be used to associate WS-Policy with WSDL and UDDI descriptions.

The WS-PolicyAttachment specification has been updated to reflect examples from WS-SecurityPolicy and to be consistent with WS-I BP guidelines.

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If you would like to view the previous versions of this specifications, click on the following links:

• Previous version of WS-PolicyAttachment specification (September 2004)
• Previous version of WS-PolicyAttachment specification (May 2003)

Resources

• You can also read some of the other specifications in the WS-Policy family:
  • WS-Policy Framework
  • WS-PolicyAssertions
  
  
• Domain-specific assertions:
  • WS-SecurityPolicy
  • WS-ReliableMessaging and WS-ReliableMessagingPolicy
  • WS-SecureConversation
  • WS-Security
  • WS-Transactions
  • WS-Trust
  
  

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