Web Services Interoperability Technologies

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What Does Web Services Interoperability Technologies Mean?

Web Services Interoperability Technologies (WSIT) is an open-source software platform developed by Java Web service engineers and Microsoft’s Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) (also known as Indigo) to ensure atomic transactions, security and reliable messaging interoperability.

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WSIT was previously known as Project Tango, and was developed as part of Java’s open source Glassfish Community.

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Web Services Interoperability Technologies enterprise features are categorized as follows:

  • Metadata: Components include Web Service Description Language (WSDL), WS-Metadata Exchange and WS-Policy. WSDL is built into the Java application programming interface (API) for XML-based Web Services (JAX-WS).
  • Security: WS-Security provides confidentiality and message content integrity, while WS-Metadata Exchange provides service metadata to consumers. WS-Security components are the WS-Security policy, WS-Trust and WS-Secure Conversation.
  • Messaging: Components include Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) integrated in JAX-WS to support message transmission optimization of SOAP’s wire format. WS-Addressing enables multiple transports.
  • Quality of Service (QoS): Components are WS-Reliable Messaging and WS-Coord.
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