WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransactions, and WS-BusinessActivity Interop Workshop - January 2005

Hosted by: IBM in Research Triangle Park, NC

On January 18-19, 2005, an Interoperability Workshop was held to test implementations and obtain feedback for the WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransactions, and WS-BusinessActivity specifications.

Companies represented

IBM Corporation
Arjuna
Choreology
Iona
Microsoft® Corporation

Workshop results

The authors of the WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransactions, and WS-BusinessActivity specifications (BEA Systems Inc, IBM Corporation, and Microsoft Corporation) hosted a 2-day interoperability workshop at the Solution Center at IBM in Research Triangle Park, NC on January 18-19, 2005. As with previous Web service-related interoperability summits, this participant-led event focused on giving developers who were implementing the WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransactions, and WS-BusinessActivity specifications a chance to test their code with other companies' implementations.

The workshop was an ad-hoc, open forum for companies to test their implementations. Attendees brought their own laptops, implementations, and any other tools needed. The participants included representatives from Arjuna, Choreology, IBM, Iona, Microsoft.

Interoperability was achieved among all the participating implementations for both Atomic Transaction (AT) and Business Activity (BA) scenarios.

No major specification changes or issues arose during the testing, although some minor points of clarification were gathered for the specification and scenarios authors to investigate.

As with previous workshops, the event was open to anyone who wanted to participate and had an implementation profile based on the WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransactions, and WS-BusinessActivity specifications. The event included a set of scenarios that were used as the basis for the interoperability (see Resources).

The list of attendees and general workshop results are listed on the Yahoo WS-Security-Workshops group (see Resources).

Resources

• More information on the specifications is available at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specificationws-tx/.
  
  
• The WS-SecureConversation specification is available at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specification/ws-secon/.
  
  
• Download the WS-AtomicTransaction scenario document and the WS-BusinessActivity scenario document used in the workshop.
  
  
• The WS-TX-Workshop group on Yahoo has full information regarding the results of this Interoperability Workshop. Note that you are required to sign a legal agreement before you can join this group.
  
  
• For more information on the workshop process and specifications, visit http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/WS-Specworkshops/.

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