Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT) is an

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project started by

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to develop the next-generation of Web service technologies. It provides interoperability between Java Web Services and

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(WCF). It consists of

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that enable advanced WS-* features to be used in a way that is compatible with Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation as used by

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. The interoperability between different products is accomplished by implementing a number of Web Services specifications, like

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that provides interoperability between Java Web Services and Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation. WSIT is currently under development as part of

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. WSIT is a series of extensions to the basic SOAP protocol, and so uses

and

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. It is not a new protocol such as the binary DCOM. WSIT implements the

WS-I The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) was an industry consortium created in 2002 and chartered to promote interoperability amongst the stack of web services specifications. WS-I did not define standards for web services; rather, it ...

specifications, including: *Metadata **

WS-MetadataExchange WS-MetaDataExchange is a web services protocol specification, published by BEA Systems, IBM, Microsoft, and SAP. WS-MetaDataExchange is part of the WS-Federation roadmap; and is designed to work in conjunction with WS-Addressing, WSDL and WS-Pol ...

** WS-Transfer ** WS-Policy *Security **

WS-Security Web Services Security (WS-Security, WSS) is an extension to SOAP to apply security to Web services. It is a member of the Web service specifications and was published by OASIS. The protocol specifies how integrity and confidentiality can be enfo ...

WS-SecureConversation WS-SecureConversation is a Web Services specification, created by IBM and others, that works in conjunction with WS-Security, WS-Trust and WS-Policy to allow the creation and sharing of security contexts. Extending the use cases of WS-Securit ...

WS-Trust WS-Trust is a WS-* specification and OASIS standard that provides extensions to WS-Security, specifically dealing with the issuing, renewing, and validating of security tokens, as well as with ways to establish, assess the presence of, and broke ...

WS-SecurityPolicy WS-SecurityPolicy is a web services specification, created by IBM and 12 co-authors, that has become an OASIS standard as of version 1.2. It extends the fundamental security protocols specified by the WS-Security, WS-Trust and WS-SecureConversatio ...

*Messaging **WS-ReliableMessaging **WS-RMPolicy *Transactions **WS-Coordination **WS-AtomicTransaction

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