Java™ Web Services Unleashed

Summary

Although WSIF is a new technology, it holds enormous promise. One of the critical issues in Web services is going to be, ironically, interoperability. Even today, if you look at the publicly accessible test Web services published on the xMethods site (http://www.xmethods.com), most are dependent on a particular SOAP server and its specific implementation: Some use Apache, others use Microsoft .NET, still others Delphi, and so on. Too often, the particular SOAP wire protocol, serialization, and encoding schemes are dissimilar, not to mention the fundamental incompatibilities of their client APIs. This is typical of the problems that WSIF can help to solve. By decoupling distributed computing from implementation, returning the focus to ...