Scientific
Applications:
WEB & GRID RELIABILITY SPECIFICATION
PUBLISHED BY IT VENDORS
Royalty-free specification promotes
open, reliable messaging standard for
Web services.
A group of leading
IT vendors, consisting of Fujitsu Limited, Hitachi Ltd, NEC
Corporation,
Oracle Corp, Sonic Software, and Sun Microsystems, announced the
publication
of the Web Services Reliability (WS- Reliability) specification
working
draft.
By providing a fundamentally more reliable transport
infrastructure, WS-Reliability will help accelerate adoption of Web services,
making them
relevant for an even wider range of enterprise application and
integration
challenges.WS-Reliability is a specification for open, reliable
Web services
messaging-including guaranteed delivery, duplicate message
elimination and
message ordering-enabling reliable communication between Web
services.
The reliability features are based on extensions to the
Simple
Object Access Protocol (SOAP), rather than being tied to the underlying
transport protocol. The specification will allow a variety of systems to
interoperate reliably in a platform- and vendor-neutral manner. Following
collaboration on the specification draft, the companies plan to submit
WS-Reliability to a standards body on a royalty-free basis.
"We are
pleased to take this step toward standardizing one of the key
technologies for
Web Services, which will leverage our experience in providing
high-reliability, mission critical enterprise systems," said Yasushi Ishida,
General Manager of Strategy and Technology Division, Software Group for
Fujitsu Limited.
"We have been working to create and promote open,
royalty-free standards for
Reliable Messaging with the various standards
bodies for years. This
cooperative WS- Reliability effort is a significant
step for Web Services
standardization, and we are proud to be playing a
leadership role through our
donation of the early draft specification."
"Reliability is a critical factor to the widespread adoption and deployment
of
Web services. We believe WS- Reliability will ensure the promise of Web
Services for business customers," said Kiyoshi Kozuka, Executive General
Manager of Software Division, Hitachi Ltd.
"We are excited to have
this opportunity to contribute our technologies based
on extensive experience
with developing mission-critical systems that demand
the highest
reliability."
"We are convinced that WS-Reliability will play a
crucial role in making Web
Services more dependable and bringing them to the
real world mission critical
enterprise systems," said Yutaka Kasahara, General
Manager of Internet
Solution Division, NEC Corporation.
"Our rich
experience in developing a variety of high-availability systems
makes NEC
confident that we are very well positioned to provide mission
critical systems
also in the Web Services era."
"Open-standards-based reliability is
essential for Web services to meet real-world business needs," said Don
Deutsch, vice president of Standards Strategy
and Architecture for Oracle
Corporation.
"WS-Reliability is an important step in defining a solid
infrastructure for
Web services and Oracle is pleased to contribute its
enterprise software
expertise to this effort."
"The WS-Reliability
specification will provide the framework to help make Web
services a truly
enterprise-capable standard for integration within and
between companies,"
said Gordon Van Huizen, vice president of product
management for Sonic
Software.
"Reliable e-business communications has been Sonic's core
business for years
and we share a deep commitment to addressing the challenges
of integration
across mission critical deployments in a standards-based
way."
"Sun is very pleased to be part of this effort to define a true
standards-
based approach to reliable Web services messaging. The combined
expertise of
the companies developing this specification is truly impressive
and we expect
WS- Reliability to be widely adopted," said Mark Bauhaus, vice
president of
Sun ONE Java Web services at Sun Microsystems.
"This
specification provides a solution that allows companies to deploy Web
services
with confidence, enabling a level of messaging reliability suitable
for just
about any business application."
The WS-Reliability specification
working draft is available royalty free for
download from each co-editor's Web
site:
Fujitsu
http://xml.fujitsu.com/en/abo
ut/ws_r.html
Hitachi
http://www.hitachi.co.jp/soft/wsrm
NEC
http://
www.nec.co.jp/press/ja/0301/WS-ReliabilityV1.0Public.zip
Oracle
http://otn.oracle.com/tech/webservices/htdocs/spec/ws-reliability.html
Sonic Software
http://www.sonicsoftware.com
/wsreliability
Sun Microsystems
htt
p://sunonedev.sun.com/platform/technologies/technologies_mv.html
About Fujitsu Limited
Fujitsu is a leading provider of
customer-focused IT and
communications solutions for the global marketplace.
Pace-setting
technologies, high-reliability/performance computing and
telecommunications
platforms, and a worldwide corps of systems and services
experts make Fujitsu
uniquely positioned to unleash the infinite possibilities
of the broadband
Internet to help its customers succeed.
Headquartered
in Tokyo, Fujitsu
Limited reported consolidated revenues of 5 trillion yen
(about US$38 billion)
for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2002.
For
more information, please see: http://www.fujitsu.com
About
Hitachi Limited
Hitachi Ltd, headquartered in
Tokyo, Japan, is one of
the world's leading global electronics companies, with
fiscal 2001 (ended
March 31, 2002) consolidated sales of 7,993.7 billion yen
($60.1 billion*).
The company manufactures and markets a wide range of
products, including
computers, semiconductors, consumer products and power and
industrial
equipment.
For more information on Hitachi Ltd, please visit Hitachi's Web site at:
http://global.hitachi.com
About NEC Corporation
NEC Corporation is one of the
world's
leading providers of broadband network and mobile Internet solutions
dedicated
to meeting the specialized needs of its diverse and global base of
customers.
Ranked as a Global Fortune 500R company and one of the world's top
patent-producing companies, the NEC group delivers tailored solutions in the
core technologies and services required in a networked world, ranging from
advanced semiconductors solutions, to high-speed, large-capacity,
mission-critical systems, system integration, and broadband and mobile
technologies.
The NEC group employs more than 140,000 people worldwide
and had net sales of
approximately $39 billion in the fiscal year ended March
2002.
For additional
information, please visit the NEC home page at: http://www.nec.com
About Oracle
Corp
Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company. For
more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at: http://www.oracle.com
About Sonic
Software Corporation
Sonic Software enables reliable interoperability
of software applications
within and across enterprises based on Web services
and Internet messaging
standards. Sonic products provide advanced security
capabilities, unmatched
performance and scalability, and guaranteed delivery
of mission-critical
information.Sonic is the world's fastest growing Internet
middleware company
and counts leaders in financial services, energy,
telecommunications and
manufacturing among its over 500 customers.
Sonic is an independent operating
company of Progress Software Corporation,
a $250+ million
software industry leader with customers in over 100 countries.
Headquartered
in Bedford Mass. Sonic Software can be reached on the Web at: http://www.sonicsoftware.com
About Sun Microsystems
Since
its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer" --
has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a leading
provider of
industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the
Net work.
Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide
Web at: http://www.sun.com
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