Summary
One of the key objectives of SOA is to obtain interoperability between heterogeneous platforms. WCF achieves this objective by implementing common standards that are endorsed by competitive vendors. IBM, Sun, BEA, and the Tibco products comply with WCF by implementing WSIT standards. These are available today as open source offerings. WCF also complies with Basic Profile to be compatible with the early web service offerings.
Some of these WSIT standards include bootstrapping communication (WS-MetaDataExchange), securing communication (WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-Security, and WS-Trust), optimizing communication (MTOM and WS-SecureConversation), enablingreliability (WS-ReliableMessaging), and enabling atomic transactions (WS-Coordination and ...
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