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Microsoft, IBM work on Web Services standard

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HYDERABAD: BEA Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and TIBCO Software Inc. will be submitting the latest version of the Web Services ReliableMessaging (WS-RM) specification, comprising both protocol and policy assertions, to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) for further refinement and finalization as a Web Services standard.

Incorporating broad

industry feedback, the co-authors proposed a technical committee and charter to enable further review and industry collaboration on the proposed standard.



WS-RM has received extensive industry support and interoperability with a number of implementations beyond the authoring companies as a result of a series of feedback and interoperability workshops, with the most recent workshop having been held April 13- April 14, 2005.

In addition to the co-authors, a wide range of companies and organizations, including Actional, Adobe, Arjuna, Blue Titan, Choreology, Ericsson, IONA and the UK government have expressed support for the launch of this effort in OASIS.

Reliable message-based communication can be a vital element to enterprise-critical applications. Reliable messaging includes the ability to ensure that a message exchange has been completed correctly with no

messages lost or duplicated.

The WS-RM protocol, together with the other Web services specifications such as those related to security, policy, transactions and coordination, can help provide a more secure, robust and scalable approach to reliable messaging.



The co-authors are committed to the development of open industry standards to help drive widespread adoption of Web services and will not charge royalties in conjunction with WS-RM.

According to the press release, the co-authors are looking forward to future collaboration in helping to bring together a more cohesive and composable Web services architecture.

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