Web Services Protocol Workshops Process Overview

Web services protocol workshops allow the whole Web services community to be involved in the process of validating and refining Web services specifications. The workshop process helps to produce well-engineered specifications and prove the interoperability of the Web services specifications with interested parties in the industry. This process has many similarities with the process for software development, and is a deliberate attempt to apply the best practices from the Software Engineering community to the task of producing Web services specifications.

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