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Wednesday 26th February 2003
WS-Reliability Specification Submitted to OASIS
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We commented on this at the time Web Services Reliability Specification was first published.
With OASIS members having formed a technical committee it will be interesting to see how IBM and Microsoft respond. Having formed Web Service technical committees themselves at OASIS it is now up to IBM and Microsoft to decide whether to join in and make a contribution, or take their own counter proposals elsewhere.
WSRM may well prove to be a bellweather of just how easy or difficult it is going to be to get universal agreement on the Web Services stack. And whether the process is going to be one of collaboration via committee on a common proposal, or one of certain vendors going for de facto acceptance first, with standards body endorsement second.
We watch this space with interest.
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OASIS WSRM
| Members of the OASIS standards consortium announced plans to collaborate on the development of a generic and open model for ensuring reliable message delivery for Web services. The new OASIS Web Services Reliable Messaging (WS-RM) Technical Committee will work to establish a standard, interoperable way of achieving reliability at the SOAP messaging level and potentially with other messaging protocols.
The WS-Reliability specification, published by Fujitsu, Hitachi, Oracle, NEC, Sonic Software, and Sun Microsystems, will be submitted as input for the OASIS WS-RM Technical Committee. Other contributions are welcome. The group plans to work closely with related OASIS Technical Committees, such as the ebXML Messaging Services and the Web Services Security teams, and with relevant efforts of other organizations, such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Services Architecture Working Group. The OASIS Reliable Messaging specification will address message persistence, acknowledgement and resending, elimination of duplicate messages, ordered delivery, and delivery status awareness for sender and receiver applications. It will provide WSDL definitions for reliable messaging, and the message formats will be specified as SOAP headers and/or body content.
Members of the OASIS WS-RM Technical Committee include Commerce One, Cyclone Commerce, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IONA, NEC, Oracle, SAP, See Beyond, Sonic Software, Sun Microsystems, webMethods, WRQ, and others. Under the rules adopted by the OASIS WS-RM Technical Committee, each participant has agreed to provide a free license to any of its intellectual property rights which someone building a product to the final technical specification would need. Participation in the technical committee remains open to all organizations and individuals, and OASIS will host an open mail list for public comment.
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