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[wsia] WS Interoperability Organisation

  • 1.  [wsia] WS Interoperability Organisation

    Posted 02-15-2002 18:25
    Just to clarify my point at the end of the phone conference: From IBM's press release: The mission of WS-I will be to provide implementation guidance to support customers deploying Web services, promote consistent and reliable interoperability among Web services and articulate a common industry vision for Web services. and To assist in ensuring the interoperability of Web services, WS-I will initially create a suite of tools and materials for testing implementation and conformance with basic level Web services standards -- XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. These testing capabilities are important so customers can ensure that their implementations comply with the best-practices use of these Web services specifications. Tests will be self administered and aimed at uncovering unconventional usage or errors in specification implementations, thus improving interoperability between applications and across platforms. WS-I will, I presume, go through a requirements gathering process, and move on to the creation of tools for testing implementations. It seems to me as we move into use-case phase, where bindings to XML, SOAP etc will be indicated, there'll be an opportunity for WSIA to both contribute to the requirements phase of WS-I, and to be an early testing ground for the WS-I tests themselves. I hope we are able to take this opportunity. A minor point: I am a little disturbed by the similarity of our acronym to theirs. I can't think of a good solution to this, but one thing that helps is writing them as WS-I (with the hyphen) and us as WSIA. Or maybe I need to get out more often :) Cheers, Royston