Visit the New Web Services Interoperability Home!

Today sees the launch of a new home on MSDN for Web Services Interoperability and Integration. This site includes features and articles and recommendations for acheiving interoperability and integration using Web Services.

The site launches with three new articles, as part of a Web Services Interoperability Guidance (WSIG) series:

- Recommendations for Web Services Interoperability between .NET Fx 1.1 and IBM WebSphere 5.1.2

- Recommendations for Web Services Interoperability between .NET Fx 1.1 and BEA WebLogic 8.1.3

- WS-Security interoperability between WSE 2.0 and Sun's JWSDP 1.4.

I'm most excited about the last article as I believe it's one of the first to demonstrate OASIS WSS 1.0 interoperability between vendors. The sample code included covers a step by step guide for using X509 certs to both sign and encrypt messages between the two, and is testament to how Microsoft and Sun have adopted the WS-Security standards.

We have some great content lined up for the next 12 months - interoperability with more platforms, WSE 2.0 custom transports, Web Services integration for mainframes and much more. At the same time, I'd love to hear the topics and features that you would also like to see here...

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 30, 2004
  Where's the RRS feed ? The only RSS link I can find on the Web Services Interoperability and Integration site goes to your blog - i.e. here.
• Anonymous
  September 30, 2004
  Congrats on the launch Simon! I look forward to seeing more concrete guidance on this really important aspect of (cross-)enterprise integration.
  
  Some topics come to mind:
  * Applying WS-I guidelines and tools
  * Implementing Integration Design Patterns Across Platforms using WSIG
  * Exception and Error Handling WSIG recommendations
• Anonymous
  October 01, 2004
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• Anonymous
  October 01, 2004
  I would really appreciate an article on using WSS 1.0 and X.509 certs with the Apache Axis web services stack.
  
  Also any guidance that you can provide on using SAML with the .NET webservices stack would be appreciated as well.
• Anonymous
  October 01, 2004
  Mike
  
  We have this RSS feed for the Web Services Developer Center - http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/rss.xml
  
  Unfortunately today, we don't support separate RSS feeds for individual pages.
  
  -Simon
• Anonymous
  October 01, 2004
  Proving interop between two tools from the same 'camp' on a point to point link is trivial in comparison to getting a service with all but the simplest of schemas to work with a wide range of disparate platforms.
  
  Anyway a nice start and we'll watch how you progress with interest!
• Anonymous
  October 02, 2004
  Am I dreaming or what. Finally a great site devoted to Interoperability. This shows why .NET is the best platform to build web services on; at least the vendor cares about interoperability.
  
  I think you should link in a few articles from MSDN which appeared previously i.e. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwse/html/wsejavainterop.asp . Then we all have one page to go to :-)
  
  Great initiatives keep it up.
  
• Anonymous
  October 11, 2004
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• Anonymous
  October 11, 2004
  What a breath of fresh air. One topic I would love to see covered in the near future is the custom TCP Transport (and other binary transports) between WSE 2.0 and JWSDP. I believe custom transports will really open up the flood gates for more people to begin leveraging web-services as the primary mechanism for heterogeneous IPC - from an intra-company perspective.
• Anonymous
  October 12, 2004
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• Anonymous
  October 12, 2004
  An impressive site. I do both J2EE (mostly) and some .Net. I wish I could point to as informative a site from the J2EE world but I can't. IBM's developerworld comes close but it often contains a wide mixture of relevant and old content. Well Done.