Here is what Microsoft said about WS-Eventing
http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/ws-eventing.asp
----- Original Message -----
From: Chiusano Joseph <>
Date: Thursday, January 8, 2004 10:57 am
Subject: Re: [ws-caf] WS-Eventing
> Yes, HP's WS-Events was part of the Web Services Management Framework
> Version 2.0 (HP along with several companies in this TC such as IONA,
> Oracle, and Sun) that was set to be contributed to the OASIS Web
> Services Distributed Management TC as of [1].
>
> With all of this WS-* stuff floating around, does anyone object if I
> change my name to WS-Joe? :)
>
> WS-Joe
>
> [1] http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-07-21-a.html
>
> John Fuller wrote:
> >
> > I know HP had a WS-Event spec. out in July that seems to support
> much> the same functionality...
> >
> > On Jan 8, 2004, at 12:46 PM, Chiusano Joseph wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > - The WS-Eventing specification "describes a protocol that
> allows Web
> > > services to subscribe to or accept subscriptions for event
> notification> > messages."
> > >
> > > - An example request to create a subscription for storm
> warnings is
> > > used
> > > to illustrate the notification protocol.
> > >
> > > - "Web services often want to receive messages when events
> occur in
> > > other services and applications. A mechanism for registering
> interest> > is
> > > needed because the set of Web services interested in receiving
> such> > messages is often unknown in advance or will change over
> time."> >
> > > - The specification intends to define a "means to create and
> delete> > event subscriptions, to define expiration for
> subscriptions, and to
> > > allow them to be renewed.
> > >
> > > - It defines how an event sink can determine which
> subscriptions it is
> > > receiving notifications for, and how one event sink can
> subscribe on
> > > behalf of another.
> > >
> > > - The specification is meant to leverage other Web service
> > > specifications for secure, reliable, transacted message delivery.
> > >
> > > Kind Regards,
>
