WS-Resource is a family of specifications that enable and standardise interfaces for web services to give the appearance of statefulness; this is accomplished using WS-Addressing

WS-Addressing

WS-Addressing or Web Services Addressing is a specification of transport-neutral mechanisms that allow web services to communicate addressing information...

 endpoints (where a service QName is bound together with a resource identifier) and resources, special web services that provide access to -- and manipulation of -- remotely stored data structures.

See Web Services Resource Framework

Web Services Resource Framework

Web Services Resource Framework is a family of OASIS-published specifications for web services. Major contributors include the Globus Alliance and IBM.A web service by itself is nominally stateless, i.e., it retains no data between invocations...

 for more details.

Components

• WS-Resource
• WS-ResourceProperties - The state of a WS-Resource is stored in a "resource properties document" in XML
  XML
  Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
  
  format. The WS-ResourceProperties specification defines the properties of a resource as well as mechanisms for querying and modifying resource properties.
• WS-ServiceGroup
• WS-ResourceLifetime
• WS-BaseFaults

See also

• OASIS WS-Resource Framework technical committee