The WS-Addressing creators call the submission of the specification to the W3C a milestone for their collaboration. Also, the companies say it is part of their efforts to provide a foundation for ...

WS-Addressing, or Web Services Addressing, is a key specification for software services on the Internet. It defines endpoint references and message information headers to allow systems to support ...

Addressing is a mechanism for identifying and exchanging Web services messages among multiple end points. The WS-Addressing spec seeks to define a standard for this process. WS-Addressing is one of ...

WS-Addressing 1.0 offers a transport-neutral mechanism for addressing objects in Web services applications built on top of URLs, called an endpoint reference, or EPR , W3C said.

With today’s acknowledgement by the W3C, the joint submission of WS-Addressing represents a milestone in the collaboration among BEA, IBM, Microsoft, SAP and Sun to further advance Web services ...