http://www.soamag.com The SOA Magazine is a monthly online publication provided by SOA Systems Inc. and Prentice Hall/PearsonPTR and is officially associated with the "Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl." SOA en-us Copyright 2006-2009, SOA Systems Inc. http://soamag.com/I27/0323-2.asp The WS-Policy language provides a set of features that allow for the definition of complex and sophisticated policies and that also enables you to choose from a range of options as to how polices can be attached and associated with WSDL definitions. In this, the second of a two-part article about WS-Policy, we demonstrate the use of operators and related composition rules. We then move onto an exploration of policy attachment methods, including external and embedded attachment options... SOA http://soamag.com/contributors/bio-UYalcinalp.asp#When:28.02.09 http://soamag.com/I26/0223-4.asp Web service contracts can be extended with policies that express additional constraints, requirements, and qualities that typically relate to the behaviors of services. You can create human-readable policies that become part of a supplemental service-level agreement, or you can define machine-readable polices that are processed at runtime. The latter type of policy is the focus of this article and the technology we'll explore to create machine-readable policies is the WS-Policy language and related WS-Policy specifications. SOA http://soamag.com/contributors/bio-UYalcinalp.asp#When:28.02.09