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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Applications:
WS-I DELIVERS SAMPLE APPLICATIONS
FOR BASIC PROFILE
The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) announced the general
availability of the WS-I Sample Application 1.0. This important deliverable
consists of the WS-I Supply Chain Management Use Cases 1.0, the WS-I Usage
Scenarios 1.0, the WS-I Supply Chain Management Technical Architecture 1.0 and
Sample Application 1.0 implementations developed by 10 vendor companies. These
documents and implementations model a simplified supply chain management
scenario and demonstrate the features in the recently released WS-I Basic
Profile 1.0. The availability of this material was announced today at the XML
Conference & Exposition 2003 taking place this week in Philadelphia.
"The availability of the WS-I Sample Application 1.0 deliverables help
define
best practices for using the Basic Profile 1.0, and provide the real-world
implementation guidance and support necessary for customers deploying Web
services," said Sinisa Zimek, chairman of the Sample Applications Working
Group. "We believe that the WS-I Sample Application 1.0 is an important
catalyst in the WS-I effort to create industry-level Web services profiles and
tools."
The WS-I Sample Application 1.0 provides a configurable collection of Web
services which exercise the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 using a supply chain
scenario that models the interactions between multiple retail storefronts,
warehouses and manufacturers. Implementations of the Sample Application have
been delivered by BEA Systems, Bowstreet, Corillian, IBM, Microsoft, Novell,
Oracle, Quovadx, SAP and Sun Microsystems. WS-I will be demonstrating these
implementations at an interoperability showcase this week at the XML
Conference & Exposition 2003.
The Sample Application Technical Architecture 1.0 details a common design
and
implementation of the supply chain management application. One of the goals of
the WS-I Sample Application 1.0 is to exploit as many of the aspects of the
Basic Profile 1.0 as possible. To this end, the Sample Application Technical
Architecture implements several schema-naming conventions, SOAP message
formats, SOAP message styles, and WSDL design practices that all conform to
the Basic Profile.
The Sample Application Usage Scenarios 1.0 translate Use Cases into a set
of
technical requirements, defining general messaging patterns for Web services
in structured interactions, identifying basic interoperability requirements
for such interactions and mapping the flow of a scenario to the requirements
of the Basic Profile 1.0.
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