Web Services Interoperability Technology

In the world of computers, technologies evolve on regular basis. Though it can become difficult for people to understand these convoluted technologies, but, they have to be deciphered one way or the other. One of the many newly evolved technologies is known as Web Services Interoperability Technology.

Web Services Interoperability Technology is an open-source project Sun Microsystems, Inc, a multinational vendor of computers. Since it is an open source project, so, there are great chances of seeing much more improvements in coming years.

What this technology is all about?
To understand what Web Services Interoperability Technology or WSIT can do, it is important to understand other related concepts. Although you can find out that WSIT is the next-generation of web service technologies created for easy interoperability between Java Platform and WCF and .NET, but, you can never get to the core of this technology if you are not aware of Java platform, WCF and .NET.

Learning the terms:
Up until now, you must have understood that WSIT is developed to create such services which interoperate between different platforms. Now, you must first understand what web services are all about. A web service is a software system developed to support the interoperability between two machines over a network or web services are simply Web APIs.

API or Application Programming Interface is a set of different methods, procedure, functions and protocols.  The role of APIs is quite important in order to understand WSIT because WSIT comes with Java Programming APIs. Precisely, it uses Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) and Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB). Because of these APIs, different web service clients and services are created by developers. Now, these services created by WSIT can easily interoperate between other application development platforms like .NET and WCF. WSIT implements the following Web Services Interoperability Organization specifications;

• Metadata


• Security


• Messaging


• Transaction

So, what's the advantage of Web Services Interoperability Technology?
No technology is created without a reason and WSIT is not an exception. There are certain advantages associated with this technology which are supposed to get better in coming years.

• The best thing about Web Services Interoperability Technology is that developers don't have to ponder a lot before hosting such a service. This technology is actually developed to eliminate the differences that a service experiences after getting created in a specific development environment. Developers can host these services without considering the programming language or operating system which surely is a great relief for them.

In past, they have to take programming language into consideration before actually hosting a service. Negligence in this regard was supposed to make a service nonfunctional. So, the basic advantage of Web Services Interoperability Technology is that it saves time and cost along with making hosting tasks easier for developers.

Though Web Services Interoperability Technology is still under development, but, it has already starting to help developers in different ways. As it is distributed under free license, so, you will surely see some improvements in this technology in near future.

About the Author:

Przemyslaw Prokopow is a project manager at JPSof LLC, Tokyo-based internet agency specializing in Japanese website design, marketing and eCommerce in Japan. He has a Ph.D. in computer science and over 10 years experience in IT industry.