What were the motivations for defining the WS-Resource Framework?
Web services must often provide their users with the ability to access and manipulate state, i.e., data values that persist across, and evolve as a result of, Web service interactions. And while Web services successfully implement applications that manage state today, it is desirable to define Web service conventions to enable the discovery of, introspection on, and interaction with stateful resources in standard and interoperable ways. WSRF defines these conventions and does so within the context of established Web services standards.
