Web Services Interoperability Technology

Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT) is an open-source project started by Sun Microsystems to develop the next-generation of web service technologies. It consists of Java programming language APIs that allow developers to create web service clients and services that interoperate between the Java platform and Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and .NET.

WSIT is distributed under the terms of the CDDL open-source license, and is currently under development.

WSIT uses JAX-WS and JAXB, and these APIs implement the WS-I specifications, including:

• Metadata
  • WS-MetadataExchange
  • WS-Transfer
  • WS-Policy
• Security
  • WS-Security
  • WS-SecureConversation
  • WS-Trust
  • WS-SecurityPolicy
• Messaging
  • WS-ReliableMessaging
  • WS-RMPolicy
• Transactions
  • WS-Coordination
  • WS-AtomicTransaction

External links

• Sun Developer Network's WSIT page
• WS-I and WSIT - What's the difference?
• java.net project pages
  • WSIT java.net project page
  • GlassFish java.net project page
  • JAX-WS java.net project page
• WSIT documentation
  • WSIT Tutorial
• WS-I information
  • WS-I home page
  • Specifications
    • WS-MetadataExchange
    • WS-Transfer
    • WS-Security
    • WS-SecureConversation
    • WS-SecurityPolicy
    • WS-Trust
    • WS-ReliableMessaging
    • WS-RMPolicy
    • WS-Coordination
    • WS-AtomicTransaction
    • WS-Policy
    • WS-PolicyAttachment

A general framework, applicable but not limited to web services, for interoperation of model-based services is described at

• Levels of Conceptual Interoperability