Web Services for Devices
Encyclopedia
Web Services for Devices or Web Services on Devices (WSD), is a Microsoft
API
to simplify programming connections to web service
enabled devices, such as Printers, Scanners and File Shares. Such devices conform to the Devices Profile for Web Services
(DPWS). It is an extensible framework that serves as a replacement for older Windows networking functions and a common framework for allowing access to new device APIs.
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
API
Application programming interface
An application programming interface is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other...
to simplify programming connections to web service
Web service
A Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over the web.The W3C defines a "Web service" as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network". It has an interface described in a machine-processable format...
enabled devices, such as Printers, Scanners and File Shares. Such devices conform to the Devices Profile for Web Services
Devices Profile for Web Services
The Devices Profile for Web Services defines a minimal set of implementation constraints to enable secure Web Service messaging, discovery, description, and eventing on resource-constrained devices....
(DPWS). It is an extensible framework that serves as a replacement for older Windows networking functions and a common framework for allowing access to new device APIs.