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Web Services Reliable Messaging

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Contributors: IBM, BEA Systems, Microsoft, TIBCO Software

01 Mar 2004
Updated 01 Feb 2005

This specification (WS-ReliableMessaging) describes a protocol that allows messages to be delivered reliably between distributed applications in the presence of software component, system, or network failures.

The updates to WS-ReliableMessaging are based upon the suggestions collected from the WS-ReliableMessaging Feedback Workshop held in July 2003 and the Interoperability Workshops held in October 2003 and in May 2004. The paper "Web Services Reliable Messaging Reloaded" describes the changes from the March 2004 version (see Resources).

The protocol is described in this specification in an independent manner allowing it to be implemented using different network transport technologies. To support interoperable Web services, a SOAP binding is defined within this specification.

The protocol defined in this specification depends upon other Web services specifications for the identification of service endpoint addresses and policies. How these are identified and retrieved are detailed within those specifications and are out of scope for this document.

WS-RM Policy Assertion describes a domain-specific policy assertion for WS-RM that can be specified within a policy alternative as defined in WS-Policy Framework (WS-Policy -- see Resources).

Get the specification and related material

DescriptionDateAccess method
WS-ReliableMessaging specification (PDF, 305 KB)February 2005HTTP download
WS-RM Policy Assertion (PDF, 90 KB)February 2005HTTP download
WS-RM WSDL February 2005HTTP Web page
WS-RM XSD February 2005HTTP Web page
WS-RM Policy XSD February 2005HTTP Web page

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