OASIS Members Organize to Define Stateful Resources Using Web Services.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 2004 OASIS AmberPoint, Arjuna Technologies, BEA Systems BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is one of the major companies developing enterprise infrastructure software. BEA makes middleware, products that help software run on top of databases. , BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. NYSE: BMC, is an American enterprise management software provider, focusing on IT infrastructure applications. BMC was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. , Computer Associates, Fujitsu, HP, 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) , 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. , Novell, OpenNetwork, Ricoh, SeeBeyond, Sonic Software, webMethods, and Others Advance Open Framework Members of the international standards consortium, OASIS, announced plans to define a generic, open framework for modeling and accessing stateful resources using 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. . The OASIS Web Services Resource Framework Web Service Resource Framework (WSRF) is a family of OASIS-published specifications for web services. Major contributors include the Globus Alliance and IBM. A web service by itself is nominally stateless, i.e., it retains no data between invocations. (WSRF WSRF Web Services Resource Framework ) Technical Committee will define a set of royalty-free, interoperable, and modular specifications that will allow the relationship between a Web service and its state to be modeled in an explicit, standard fashion. "Web services implementations are usually stateless--the lifetime of a dynamic state does not exceed the processing of an individual message. Web service interfaces, on the other hand, often imply some form of stateful interaction with the clients of the service," explained David Snelling of Fujitsu, convener and proposed co-chair of the OASIS WSRF Technical Committee. "WSRF, which will formalize this implied resource pattern, will include mechanisms to describe views on state, to support its management through associated properties, and to describe how these mechanisms are extensible to groups of Web services." "Our work will create a framework within which Web services can access state in a consistent and interoperable manner," added Ian Robinson This article is about the Australian. For an article about the Ian Robinson who works at MTV, see Ian Robinson (MTV). Ian Robinson (b. 18 November 1940, Melbourne, Australia) is President of the Rationalist Society of Australia and immediate past Chairman of the of IBM, proposed co-chair of the OASIS WSRF Technical Committee. "WSRF will simplify the definition of new service interfaces and enable more powerful discovery, management and development tools." Authors of WS-Resource--a set of documents recently published by Computer Associates, Fujitsu, the Globus Alliance For other uses, see Globus. The Globus Alliance is an international association dedicated to developing fundamental technologies needed to build grid computing infrastructures. , HP, and IBM--plan to submit their work to the OASIS WSRF Technical Committee at its first meeting, with the same intent as the parallel submission of WS-Notification. Other contributions conforming to the charter of the Technical Committee (if any) will be evaluated upon submission. The OASIS WSRF Technical Committee will coordinate efforts with the OASIS Web Services Notification (WSN WSN Wireless Sensor Network WSN Widseth Smith Nolting WSN World Spaceflight News WSN Women's Success Network WSN Water Science Network WSN Wilhelmina Scouting Network WSN Western Society of Naturalists WSN Web Style Network WSN World Server Network ) Technical Committee (also announced today). Members of the OASIS WSN Technical Committee plan to conform their work to the implied resource pattern specified by WSRF and will make use of WSRF specifications concerning lifetime and properties. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. officials of the Global Grid Forum In 2006, the Global Grid Forum merged with the Enterprise Grid Alliance and formed the Open Grid Forum. This article is kept for historical reasons, and should be synchronized with the OGF article. (GGF GGF Gegebenenfalls (German: if necessary) GGF Geschäftsführer (German) GGF Global Grid Forum GGF Glass and Glazing Federation (UK) GGF Great-Grandfather GGF Good Good Friday ), WSRF and WSN have the potential to more closely connect the Grid and Web services communities. Both OASIS technical committees look forward to active participation from GGF. "As GGF moves forward with the Open Grid Services Architecture The Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) describes an architecture for a service-oriented grid computing environment for business and scientific use, developed within the Global Grid Forum (GGF). (OGSA OGSA Open Grid Services Architecture OGSA Ontario Golf Superintendents' Association (Canada) ), we are enthusiastic about the opportunity to leverage our efforts with OASIS and explore the synergies between WSN, WSRF, and OGSA," noted Charlie Catlett, GGF Chair and Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Argonne National Laboratory, research center, based in Argonne, Ill., 27 mi (43 km) SW of downtown Chicago, with other facilities at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, 50 mi (80 km) W of Idaho Falls, Idaho. Founded in 1946 by the U.S. . Industry Support for WSRF "In order to build solutions that enable organizations to realize the full value of Web services, the industry requires a simplified means of modeling stateful resources. We are glad to be contributing our Web services management expertise to these efforts, as we see the WSRF specification as vital to the development of these enabling technologies," said Fred Carter, AmberPoint's chief architect. "The OASIS WSRF--in conjunction with the other Web services security and management standards supported and contributed by CA--will facilitate realization of robust, secure and scalable services-oriented architectures based on Web services and Grid Computing principles. CA will continue to work closely with OASIS and other industry leaders to ensure the ability of CA customers to build high-value, manageable business applications using state-of-the-art technologies," said Dmitri Tcherevik, director of Web services at Computer Associates. "Fujitsu is pleased to contribute to WSRF standardization by offering the services of Dr. David Snelling of Fujitsu as a co-chair of this OASIS TC. The standardization of Royalty Free and freely available specifications, such as WSRF and WSN, is critical to the use of Grid technologies in a broad commercial market. We believe that this commercial market demands that implementations of these specifications can proceed without infringing proprietary technologies, while making sure that these specifications remain under the control of an open standard body for their future evolution. We hope our contribution to the OASIS WSRF Technical Committee helps to accomplish this. We believe OASIS is the ideal venue for the standardization of the WSRF technologies," said Seigo Hirosue, General Manager of Strategy and Technology Division, Software Group of Fujitsu Limited. "webMethods' work with the OASIS WSRF Technical Committee is indicative of the company's ongoing support of Web services standards. The creation and management of stateful resources are a critical component to creating sophisticated applications with an Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture. As a provider of these infrastructures for many years, webMethods is excited about the opportunity to help shape the standardization of these important capabilities," said Marc Breissinger, vice president and chief architect, webMethods, Inc. About OASIS OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web services, conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 3,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries. http://www.oasis-open.org Additional information: OASIS WSRF Technical Committee http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wsrf OASIS WSN Technical Committee http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wsn Cover Pages: Stateful Web Services http://xml.coverpages.org/statefulWebServices.html |
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