Web Service stuff at JavaOne

[Frank Cohen <fc...@pushtotest.com>]

I'm at JavaOne this week learning all the new stuff about Java and Web 
Services. So far, there's little talk about Apache Axis, but that's to 
be expected at a Sun-centered conference I suppose.

The JAX-RPC birds of a feather session covered Sun JAX-RPC group's 
planned support for WS-Security. Client-side security certificates 
never took off and that leaves Web Services in a difficult situation 
because PKI/SSL configuration is a huge pain for system managers. The 
session presented a conceptual view  of WS-Security in JAX-RPC. The 
init() method of an object that is published as a Web Service includes 
identifying the client side security certificate, id and password. That 
means the WS controls certificates for authentication and encryption.

The session also gave more details on Fast Web Services. Sun is working 
on a binary-encoded remote procedure call that uses SOAP APIs on either 
end of the connection. Fast Web Services is being proposed through a 
European telcom standards body. Sun is seeing 5-10x performance 
improvements over using XML-over-the-wire SOAP calls.

They also covered support for WS-I. The Oasis Group WS-I specification 
is a subset of SOAP 1.1 and WSDL 1.1. JAX-RPC will build WS-I code by 
using a command-line switch while compiling the Web Service code.

-Frank

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Re: Web Service stuff at JavaOne

[Anne Thomas Manes <an...@manes.net>]

Thanks for the update, Frank.
One minor note, though. The WS-I Basic Profile is not an OASIS standard.
WS-I is an independent vendor consortium, and it is not affiliated with
OASIS in any way.

Anne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Cohen" <fc...@pushtotest.com>
To: <ax...@ws.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 2:41 PM
Subject: Web Service stuff at JavaOne


> I'm at JavaOne this week learning all the new stuff about Java and Web
> Services. So far, there's little talk about Apache Axis, but that's to
> be expected at a Sun-centered conference I suppose.
>
> The JAX-RPC birds of a feather session covered Sun JAX-RPC group's
> planned support for WS-Security. Client-side security certificates
> never took off and that leaves Web Services in a difficult situation
> because PKI/SSL configuration is a huge pain for system managers. The
> session presented a conceptual view  of WS-Security in JAX-RPC. The
> init() method of an object that is published as a Web Service includes
> identifying the client side security certificate, id and password. That
> means the WS controls certificates for authentication and encryption.
>
> The session also gave more details on Fast Web Services. Sun is working
> on a binary-encoded remote procedure call that uses SOAP APIs on either
> end of the connection. Fast Web Services is being proposed through a
> European telcom standards body. Sun is seeing 5-10x performance
> improvements over using XML-over-the-wire SOAP calls.
>
> They also covered support for WS-I. The Oasis Group WS-I specification
> is a subset of SOAP 1.1 and WSDL 1.1. JAX-RPC will build WS-I code by
> using a command-line switch while compiling the Web Service code.
>
> -Frank
>
> --
> Frank Cohen, Founder, PushToTest, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone: 408
> 374 7426
> Come to PushToTest for free open-source test automation solutions that
> test and monitor
> Web-enabled applications, especially Web Services for scalability and
> reliability.
>