Martin for DAML-S Coalition                                                                                                                                                     DAML PI Meeting 02/12/02                       
DAML-S / WSDL Grounding
•Web Services Description Language
–Authored by IBM, Ariba, Microsoft
–Focus of W3C Web Services Description WG
–Commercial momentum
–Specifies message syntax accepted/generated by communication ports
–Bindings to popular message/transport standards (SOAP, HTTP, MIME)
–Extensibility elements
•Complementary with DAML-S
WSDL Bindings:
SOAP 1.1
HTTP GET / POST (see Section 4)
MIME (see Section 5)