Web Services Addressing 1.0

Web Services Addressing 1.0 (WS-Addressing) is a specification that defines a transport-independent mechanism for passing messaging information between web services.

The WS-Addressing specification defines two constructs, message addressing properties and endpoint references, that normalize the information that is typically provided by transport protocols and messaging systems.

The specification is published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as a W3C recommendation and is published in three parts:

• WS-Addressing 1.0 - Core
• WS-Addressing 1.0 - SOAP binding
• WS-Addressing 1.0 - Metadata

You are recommended to follow these W3C specifications when using WS-Addressing with CICS®.

For interoperability, CICS tolerates the W3C WS-Addressing submission specification only when the namespace is set to: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing.

The CICS API commands support MAPs and EPRs that follow the WS-Addressing recommendation specifications; however, the API commands do not support MAPs and EPRs that follow the WS-Addressing submission specification.

The addressing context maintains all the MAPs at the level of the recommendation specifications. If required, these MAPs can be converted to, or from, the submission specification level when they are applied to, or extracted from, the SOAP message.