The Web Services Addressing (WS-Addressing) support in WebSphere Application Server provides the environment for Web services that use the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) WS-Addressing specifications. This family of specifications provide transport-neutral mechanisms to address Web services and to facilitate end-to-end addressing.
By default, WebSphere Application Server supports the W3C WS-Addressing 1.0 Core and SOAP Binding specifications that are identified by the http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing namespace. Unless otherwise stated, WS-Addressing semantics that are described in this documentation refer to these specifications.
For interoperability, other levels of the WS-Addressing specification are supported in this version of WebSphere Application Server; in particular, the WS-Addressing W3C submission with the namespace http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing.