Perhaps you're already sated by the current stack of Web services standards, but be prepared, more are coming and within a few years the intention is that they be piled high like a Dagwood sandwich.
At last week's SHARE conference in Boston, two of IBM's standards gurus gave an update on the current state of Web services, informing the audience that numerous quality of service specifications should soon be working their way into official standards bodies.
Most people these days are familiar with the basic set of Web services: XML for encoding, SOAP for messaging, WSDL for description and UDDI for discovery. They form the foundation of what is envisioned as the full Web services stack. The top of the stack also has its core standard in Business Process Execution Language (BPEL).
