WS-Star Starts to Shine - WS-TX Submission to OASIS

Yesterday saw the public announcement of a new WS-TX Technical Committee at OASIS where Arjuna Technologies, BEA Systems, Hitachi, IBM, IONA Technologies and Microsoft will be submitting the Web Services Coordination (WS-Coordination), Atomic Transaction (WS-AtomicTransaction), and Business Activity Framework (WS-BusinessActivity) specifications. As CBDI describes in an article about the submission, this represents another of the WS-* jigsaw pieces falling in to place, and is a further example of the continued coalescence of the WS-* architecture. Abstract: The acronym WS-STAR (or WS-*) is widely used to refer to the set of protocols required to enable secure, reliable, asynchronous transactions to be conducted without creating dependencies on a common messaging middleware or transaction processor. In other words WS-STAR represents a baseline for pretty much any normal commercial transaction. WS-Security has been around for some time, whilst the WS-RX (Reliable Exchange) Technical ...

03:02:48 October 13, 2005, Thursday (PDT) Source: TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblog

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