About Advanced Web Service Features

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The Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT) encompasses the advanced web service features. Sun has been working closely with Microsoft to ensure interoperability of web services enterprise features between Java web services and .Net web services. The features that relate to this effort are message optimization, reliable messaging, and security. To accomplish interoperability, WSIT engineers have implemented a number of open Web services specifications to support enterprise features and are working with the Microsoft engineers to test the implementations for interoperability.

The advanced Web services features fall into four main categories:

• Bootstrapping and configuration. The process that is executed to create a Web service client that can access and consume a Web service.
• Message security. The following security configuration options are supported:
  • Targets to sign and encrypt options
  • Client/service Web services security
  • Client/service trust options
  • Advanced configuration options
  • Keystore configuration options
• Message optimization. Ensures that Web services messages are transmitted over the Internet in the most efficient manner. Message optimization is achieved in Web services communication by encoding messages prior to transmission and then de-encoding them when they reach there final destination.
• Reliable messaging. Measured by a system's ability to deliver messages from point A to point B without error.