WSIT
WSIT is another initiative from SUN towards providing this world with an open and interoperable solutions. Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT) is an open-source implementation of next generation Web services technologies that deliver interoperability between Java EE and .Net to help users build, deploy, and maintain Composite Applications for their Service Oriented Architecture.It is focused on four main categories: Messaging, Metadata, Security, Policy and Quality-of-Service (QoS).
For several months engineers at SUN have been working closely with engineers at Microsoft and SUN has been participating in various interop events [1] to flush out issues and make WSIT one of the best products in its clan.
One of the important features of WSIT is Webservices security. Webservices security from SUN has been out there for a while now and recent release of XWSS 2.0 [2] has added support for more specifications and better performance to its credit. Webservices security in WSIT has gotten better than XWSS 2.0 with support for WSS 1.1 , WS-Trust , WS-Secureconversation and WS Security Policy.
After XWSS 2.0 got released I have been tracking WS-Security Policy specification and implementing the same , rearchitecting WS Security implementation to improve performance is another task of mine. It has been very challenging and exciting to work with WSIT team at SUN. Boy they do have Kick butt and have fun attitude :) . That's it for now guys, will provide more insight into WS Security Policy implementation and WS Security soon.
For information on Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT), please go to http://java.sun.com/webservices/interop. For more information on the open source project on java.net, please go to project page at wsit.dev.java.net.We encourage you to join the project, download, contribute and provide feedback.
[1] Blogs from Arun Gupta about SUN participating at interop events.(Nov 2005 and Mar 2006).
[2]https://xwss.dev.java.net/
[3]http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ashutosh?entry=xwss_2_0_on_java
[4]http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/venu?entry=xwss_2_0_ea2_performance
