An overview of the Web Services Inspection Language
Service discovery defines a process for locating service providers and retrieving service description documents, and is a key component of the overall Web services model. Service discovery is a very broad concept, which means that it is unlikely to have one solution that addresses all of its requirements. The Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) specification addresses a subset of the overall requirements by using a centralized service discovery model. This article provides an overview of the Web Services Inspection Language (WS-Inspection), another related service discovery mechanism that addresses a different subset of requirements using a distributed usage model. The WS-Inspection specification is designed around an XML-based model for building an aggregation of references to existing Web service descriptions, which are exposed using standard Web server technology.
Atom allows your web service to be seen
Finally we have a simple means of discovering when new services have been made available at a particular endpoint location. This article introduces and demonstrates the combined use of Atom 1.0 and Web Services Addressing 1.0 specifications as a functional replacement for the now defunct WS-Inspection.
