OASIS Members Approve Nine Web Services Standards.IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Adobe, Axway, BMC (BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX, www.bmc.com) A leading supplier of software that supports and improves the availability, performance, and recovery of applications in complex computing environments. , CA, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Intel, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , NeuStar, Nokia, Nortel, Novell, Progress Software, Red Hat, Ricoh, SAP, SOA Software SOA Software is a provider of enterprise class SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) security, management, and governance solutions. The company was originally called Digital Evolution, and has taken over a number of specialist SOA vendors. , Software AG, TIBCO TIBCO The Information Bus Company , VeriSign, US Veterans Health Administration and Others Advance Standards for Reliable Messaging, Transactions, and Secure Exchange BOSTON -- OASIS, the international open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced consortium, today announced that its members have approved new versions of nine Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. specifications as OASIS Standards, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. The WS Reliable Exchange (WS-RX), WS Transactions (WS-TX), and WS Secure Exchange (WS-SX) standards support reliable message exchange, coordinate the outcome of distributed application An application made up of distinct components running in separate runtime environments, usually on different platforms connected via a network. Typical distributed applications actions, and enable trusted relationships. These standards now include updated references to the latest versions of all cited specifications, enhancing their composability and stand alone use. Their approval marks a milestone in the maturity of Web services technology. "Working together, these standards provide a level of consistency across multiple services that is critical as customers move core business processes to SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ," said Judith Hurwitz, president of Hurwitz & Associates.. "WS-RX, WS-TX, and WS-SX standards offer developers a sophisticated switchboard of services to support the complex interactions required by today's enterprise." Three WS-RX standards--WS ReliableMessaging 1.2, WS ReliableMessaging Policy 1.2, and WS MakeConnection 1.1--allow messages to be transferred reliably despite failures in software components, systems, or networks. They enable a broad range of features, including ordered delivery, duplicate elimination, and guaranteed receipt. Three WS-TX standards--WS-Coordination 1.2, WS-AtomicTransaction 1.2, and WS-BusinessActivity 1.2--describe an extensible framework for coordinating transactions across a mixed vendor environment. Three WS-SX standards--WS-Trust 1.4, WS-SecureConversation 1.4, and WS-SecurityPolicy 1.3--provide methods for issuing security tokens See authentication token and EAS. , establishing trust relationships, and allowing key material to be exchanged more efficiently. "The WS-RX, WS-TX, and WS-SX standards were designed to be implemented individually or in combination with one another, so they can be tailored to meet specific SOA requirements," said Laurent Liscia, executive director of OASIS. "These new versions of the specifications reference each other where appropriate to enable easy composability amongst themselves and other Web services standards." All nine standards were developed under the Royalty-Free on RAND mode of the OASIS Intellectual Property Rights Policy. Participation in the WS-RX, WS-TX, and WS-SX Technical Committees remains open to all interested parties. Archives of the work are publicly accessible, and OASIS offers a mechanism for public comment. Support for WS OASIS Standards IBM "The approval of the Web services standards produced by the WS-RX, WS-TX and WS-SX Technical Committees represents a significant milestone with contributions from a broad coalition of companies. Our customers continue to look to the Web services architecture to provide robust, enterprise ready technology for their SOA deployments. Transactions, reliable messaging and security are critical capabilities. IBM addresses these requirements with support for these standards in products like WebSphere Application Server and Tivoli Federated Identity In information technology, federated identity has two general meanings:
Microsoft "The standardization of these versions of the WS-SX, WS-RX and WS-TX specifications is a major step that finalizes the core Web services standards. By aligning references across these OASIS Standards and the W3C WS-Addressing and WS-Policy Recommendations, these standards encourage even more interoperable vendor implementations for Web services messaging, security, policy, reliability and transactions. The Web services standards offer mature support for critical customer enterprise scenarios, whether the protocols are used alone or in combination, thereby scaling from simple to complex scenarios," said Paul Cotton, Partner Group Manager, Connected Systems Division, Microsoft. CA "The further evolution of Web services will depend heavily upon WS-SX, WS-RM WS-RM Web Services-Reliable Messaging (OASIS) and WS-TX. These standards use the WS-Security and WS-Policy frameworks as a foundation to define a set of protocols and extensions that help ensure trusted and reliable messages in a Web services-based system. They also define security and management policies that govern the formats and tokens of those messages. CA is a provider of various solutions that support SOA and strives to further facilitate the evolution of SOA interoperability and security," said Milan Shah, vice president, Software Engineering, CA Security Management. Hitachi "Hitachi is pleased to see the maturation of these critical specifications and the normalization In relational database management, a process that breaks down data into record groups for efficient processing. There are six stages. By the third stage (third normal form), data are identified only by the key field in their record. of these specifications to reference final materials developed by other organizations. By avoiding references to proprietary specifications Hitachi expects that adoption of these specifications will be strongly encouraged," said Hideaki Sakaue, Executive General Manager, Hitachi, Ltd., Software Division. Nokia "Nokia is pleased to see the advancement of standards for Web Services, and in particular given the importance of security, the Secure Exchange standards," said Frederick Hirsch, Senior Architect of Nokia. SAP "In continuing our support and commitment to the SOA and Web services standards, SAP co-chaired the OASIS WS-RX Technical Committee and stewarded the development of the WS-ReliableMessaging specifications. Approval of these and other Web services specifications as OASIS Standards not only represents the maturity of this technology, it also reinforces our customer's confidence in using the Web services technology for enterprise services," said Claus von Riegen, Director Technology Standards and Open Source, SAP AG (company) SAP AG - (Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung - German for "Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing") A company from Germany that sells the leading suite of client-server business software. The US branch is called SAP America. . SOA Software "SOA Software is pleased to see the approval of these specifications as OASIS Standards. They will help ensure interoperability of security and reliability between vendors. These standards will allow us to more easily govern service platforms by managing the runtime policy engines of any vendor that implements and supports them," said Alistair Farquharson, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. at SOA Software. Additional information: OASIS Web Services Reliable Exchange (WS-RX) TC http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ws-rx/ OASIS Web Services Transaction (WS-TX) TC http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ws-tx/ OASIS WS-SX Technical Committee: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ws-sx/ About OASIS: OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) drives the development, convergence, and adoption of open standards for the global information society. A not-for-profit consortium, OASIS advances standards for SOA, security, Web services, documents, e-commerce, government and law, localisation (programming) localisation - (l10n) Adapting a product to meet the language, cultural and other requirements of a specific target market "locale". Localisation includes the translation of the user interface, on-line help and documentation, and ensuring the images and , supply chains, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. processing, and other areas of need identified by its members. OASIS open standards offer the potential to lower cost, stimulate innovation, grow global markets, and protect the right of free choice of technology. The consortium has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries. http://www.oasis-open.org |
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