The alphabet soup of WS-* is difficult to master and yet, very essential for the immediate future. Here's our pocket guide to the basics of the 12 most important WS standards and in what situations they apply, for both .NET and Java.
by Laurence Moroney
June 9, 2005
he Web Services Interoperability organization (WSI) has developed a whole stable of standards upon which Web services commerce and communication can be executed securely. These standards are in great demand and many developers have already gotten their feet wet with a few of them out of sheer necessity. But it's not been particularly easy to figure out which standard one might need to apply in various circumstances. Hopefully, I'm about to change that.
This article provides a basic roadmap of the main WS-* standards, and some implementation guidelines for both Java and .NET. Many of the implementation libraries for the WS-* standards are found in the Java Web Services Development Pack 1.5 (JWSDP), available for download from Sun at http://java.sun.com/webservices/jwsdp/index.jsp, and in the Microsoft Web services enhancements add- on (WSE) for .NET.
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