WS-Inspection is a
Web service specification for "discovery documents" developed in a joint effort by
Microsoft
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and
IBM. WS-Inspection lists groups of web services and their endpoints in an
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. T ...
format. Currently, other standards are being used for this purpose, such as Microsoft's DISCO. It is expected that WS-Inspection will eventually replace these standards to become the universally accepted discovery standard for Web services.
See also
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Web Services Discovery
Web Services Discovery provides access to software systems over the Internet using standard protocols. In the most basic scenario there is a ''Web Service Provider'' that publishes a service and a ''Web Service Consumer'' that uses this service. ...
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List of Web service specifications
There are a variety of specifications associated with web services. These specifications are in varying degrees of maturity and are maintained or supported by various standards bodies and entities. These specifications are the basic web services ...
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UDDI
Web Services Discovery provides access to software systems over the Internet using standard protocols. In the most basic scenario there is a ''Web Service Provider'' that publishes a service and a ''Web Service Consumer'' that uses this service. ...
External links
WS-Inspection Overview
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Inspection
An inspection is, most generally, an organized examination or formal evaluation exercise. In engineering activities inspection involves the measurements, tests, and gauges applied to certain characteristics in regard to an object or activity. ...