The Provisioning Services Technical Committee (PSTC) at OASIS, the premier standards body for SOA-related standards, defined an XML-based framework named Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) for exchanging user information, resource information, and service provisioning information in systems. In this article, we'll explore the role of SPML in managing identity and resource information in SOA environments.

What Is SPML?
SPML is an XML-based request response protocol that is used to integrate and interoperate service provisioning requests. The use of SPML is to enable organizations to set up interfaces for Web Services and applications quickly and securely. This is done by letting portals, application servers, and service centers generate provisioning requests in and across organizations.