Jeffrey Kenyon

Current standards for SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI have no explicit support for the versioning and deprecation of Web services. This article introduces a means for Web service versioning and deprecation that is lightweight and flexible, and requires minimal development effort. This approach is intended primarily for use within a corporation using one or more internal UDDI registries. It may be applied in the UDDI public registry "cloud," but only for controlling versioning and deprecation for Web services controlled by a single provider. Requirements The following is a preliminary set of requirements that a successful strategy for Web service versioning and deprecation should support. 1.   The ability for a consuming application to automatically determine and consume the most recent version of the Web service that supports the required functionality 2.   A standard means thr... (more)