There are many key standards that need to be taken into consideration when you set out to develop web services, some required and some optional,
From my experience the big 3 required for every web services project are:
SOAP for communication
WSDL for describing interfaces
BPEL for composing service compositions
What are the other key optional ones ? CDL ? WS-Secuity ?
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