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FACED WITH demand to develop more sophisticated Web services, a new working group -- formed within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) -- is set to tackle key standards challenges, including reliable messaging and extended SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) functionality.
Featuring 67 members from companies such as Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and ChevronTexaco, the Web Services Architecture Working Group is expected to publish in April a working draft containing requirements of an architecture for deploying Web services.
The move reflects growing demand for standards capable of supporting transaction-based applications and comes amid political jockeying …