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)
– Abstract “types”; extensibility elements
• Complementary with DAML-S