Standards that enable SOA are not evolved in a big bang model; they evolved over a period of time and they contribute towards the SOA standards and their improvement. The following diagram shows various standards that contribute towards SOA:
The following table describes the important standards that enable SOA:
Sr. no. |
Standard |
Standard Description |
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1 |
WSDL |
Web Services Description Language is an XML-based language used to describe the service exposed by the application. |
2 |
SOAP |
Simple Object Access Protocol is a platform-neutral transport protocol used to access remote service. |
3 |
MTOM |
Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism is a method of efficiently sending binary data to and from web services. MTOM when used with XOP, is used to transmit larger messages. |
4 |
XOP |
XML-binary Optimized Packaging is a means of more efficiently serializing XML infosets that have certain types of content. This is used to optimize the XML data... |