FX-Agents Papers Archive

Emerging Business Standards

W3C-sponsored XML-based SOAP lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment. I

Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1

W3C-sponsored XML-based format for describing network services as a setof endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information.

Web Services Flow Language (WSFL 1.0)

IBM-sponsored XML-based language for the description of Web Services compositions.

JXTA

Sun-sponsored open source programming platform for peer-to-peer distributed services.

ebXML Business Process Spcification Schema 1.01

Consortia including Lucent, Sun, Telcordia - sponsored framework by which business systems may be configured to support execution of business collaborations consisting of business transactions, based upon prior UN/VEFACT work.

Business Process Modeling Language (BPML) 0.4

The BPMInitiative has been created to develop, publish, maintain, and promote a common meta-language (BPML) enabling all participants involved in the process design, deployment, execution, maintenance, and optimization to manage business activities in a process-oriented fashion, while presenving the integrety of end-to-end business processes over their entire lifecycle.

XLANG Draft 1 (MS doc format)

Microsoft-sponsored language to describe systems of autonomous interacting agents using UML interaction diagrams.

XSLT

WC3-sponsored XML translation language.