OASIS on Wednesday announced its approval of WS-Notification version 1.3 as an official OASIS standard. WS-Notification defines a pattern-based approach to disseminating information amongst Web services. The standard actually consists of three different specifications: WS-BaseNotificiation, for standard message exchanges; WS-BrokeredNotification, defining message exchanges to be implemented by a "Notification Br OASIS on Wednesday announced its approval of WS-Notification version 1.3 as an official OASIS standard. WS-Notification defines a pattern-based approach to disseminating information amongst Web services. The standard actually consists of three different specifications: WS-BaseNotificiation, for standard message exchanges; WS-BrokeredNotification, defining message exchanges to be implemented by a “Notification Broker,” and WS-Topics, providing an XML model to organize classes of events. Also, WS-Notification leverages the WSRF (Web Services Resources Framework) standard from OASIS and is used in turn by the OASIS Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM)standard.AmberPoint, Fujitsu and IBM already have implemented WS-Notification, OASIS said. Companies such as CA and Tibco Software endorsed the specification in prepared statements released by OASIS.“WS-Notification provides an essential publish/subscribe event mechanism for higher-level, service-oriented management protocols such as OASIS WSDM. This standard will enable the IT community to further advance the flexibility, efficiency, and ease by which enterprises can maintain the health of their increasingly complex computing environments,” said Paul Lipton, senior architect for the CA Wily Technology Division. “The approval of WS-Notification is a significant milestone for developers and users responsible for SOA at their organizations. By standardizing the way events are communicated using open, as opposed to proprietary protocols, WS-Notification has become a key element to the foundation of service-oriented, event-driven enterprise architectures,” said Matt Quinn, vice president of Product Management and Strategy at Tibco Software. Technology Industry