Grid Computing terms starting with W

17 terms

  1. W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) The World Wide Web Consortium is an independent work group formed in 1994 thatprovides standards like XML.
  2. Web Service A Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.
  3. Web Services Protocols that enable computers to work together by exchanging messages. Web services are based on the standard protocols of XML, SOAP and WSDL, which…
  4. Web Services Addressing (WSA) The WS-Addressing specification defines transport-neutral mechanisms to address web services and messages.
  5. Web Services Deployment Descriptor (WSDD) An Axis XML-based configuration file.
  6. Web Services Description Language (WSDL) A language used to describe the actions that a web service can perform, along with the syntax of action requests and responses.
  7. Web Services Description Language for Java Toolkit (WSDL4j) WSDL4J allows the creation, representation, and manipulation of WSDL documents. For more information, see http://www-136.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource.
  8. Web Services Interoperability Basic Profile (WS-I Basic Profile) The WS-I Basic Profile specification is a set of recommendations on how to use the different web services specifications such as SOAP, WSDL, etc.
  9. Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) For more information, see http://ws.apache.org/wsif/.
  10. Web Services Notification (WSN) The WS-Notification family of specifications define a pattern-based approach to allowing Web services to disseminate information to one another.
  11. Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) is a specification that extends web services for grid applications by giving them the ability to retain state…
  12. WebMDS In WS MDS, WebMDS is a web-based interface to WSRF resource property information that can be used as a user-friendly front-end to the Index Service or…
  13. Workload Balancing Distributing the workload across multiple systems to optimize system usage and response time for the user.
  14. WSA (Web Services Architecture) The Web Services Architecture is a standardized approach based on SOAP and WSDL to develop Web Service solutions.
  15. WSDL (Web Services Description Language) Web Services Description Language is a mechanism for representing the services that a provider has and is making available and the specifics for accessing…
  16. WSFL (Web Services Flow Language) The Web Services Flow Language addresses flows and dependencies between services.
  17. WSIL (Web Services Inspection Language) Web Services Inspection Language is a means for discovering the WSDL-described services that a provider has made available.