WS standard for mobile apps

BANGALORE: The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) has released OMA Web Services 1.0, which defines best practices by which mobile applications can be exposed, discovered, and consumed using Web services. Said an online report.

The OMA has more than 350 companies representing the world's leading mobile operators, device and network suppliers, information technology companies, and content and service providers. It delivers open standards for the mobile industry, and aims at creating interoperable services that work across countries, operators, and mobile terminals.

The purpose of this new specification is to provide guidelines for Web services technologies to integrate and opertae in am OMA architecture as well as ensure interoperability across servers and terminals supporting the Web services protocol.

The OMA Web Services 1.0 is based on standards from the Liberty Alliance, OASIS, the Parlay Group, The Third-Generation Partnership Project, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I).