Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog

The Web Services Interoperability and Integration developer center has been launched.

Well the Microsoft .NET-J2EE interoperability guru Simon Guest has written a couple of articles about the Web Service interoperability between .NET, WebLogic and WebSphere platforms. You can check both articles here.

Sun plans to develop a new persistence API that joins concepts of EJB adn JDO technologies.

A nice article about Human Workflow Services in BizTalk Server 2004 has been published in MSDN Magazine.

The new Gartner report put Microsoft on top of the SOA technology providers.

Well this guy is simply amazing. James Strachan has develoed now ActiveSOAP, a new open source project, which is a pure StAX based implementation of the SOAP 1.2 protocol for implementing document centric Web Services and SOAP intermediaries. Currently HTTP and JMS are supported transports.

In the past week WS-Transfer specification was released. I think that the authors and contributors do a great job. However isn't good to see that IBM is not is the list of the authors. In the last version of WTTK IBM provides an implementation of WS-Resource Framework specifications that follows a similar idea of WS-Transfer. In some topics there are a set of specification that addresses similar problems: WS-Eventing and WS-Notification set (WS-Notification, BrokeredNotification and WS-Topics); WS-Addressing and WS-MessageDelivery and now WS-Transfer and WS-Resource Framework. In some cases I think that would be nice to uniform criterias among the Web Service technology providers.

Christian Weyer post a great resume of the features of SOAP Scope 4.0.