Another evident article that WS-Addressing is *the* cornerstone in the Web services world: The hidden impact of WS-Addressing on SOAP on IBM's developerWorks.

The WS-Addressing protocol might not seem like much at first glance. But it establishes message information headers that will make new Web services message flow patterns possible -- and that's something that will have a profound impact on SOAP engines and the future of the SOAP protocol itself.