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October 26, 2005 | Comments: (0)

Secure Web services messaging eyed

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With Web services and SOA growing in importance in enterprises, OASIS continues to boost its efforts to advance Web services standardization, with security again the focus of a new initiative.

OASIS on Wednesday announced plans to define extensions to the WS-Security standard for Web services to enable the trusted exchange of multiple SOAP messages. OASIS also will define security policies that govern formats and tokens of those messages.

The newly formed OASIS Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) Technical Committee features vendors and users who will finalize a set of specfications based on three initial contributions: WS-SecureConversation, WS-SecurityPolicy and WS-Trust.

The committee will advance a set of specifications to standardize concepts, WSDL documents and XML Schema renderings for trusted brokering of SOAP message exchanges, shared security contexts and security policies, OASIS said.

Among the members of the committee are companies such as Actional, Adobe, BMC Software, BEA Systems, Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Iona, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Tibco, VeriSign and webMethods.

"We continue to see increasing demand for secure Web services from our clients deploying advanced SOA solutions," said Karla Norsworthy, vice president, IBM Software Standards, in a prepared statement released by OASIS. "The specifications contributed to the OASIS WS-SX Committee provide customers the ability to establish trust relationships that span long-running exchange and provide interoperability for real world scenarios."

The committee will hold its first meeting on December 7-8.

Posted by Paul Krill on October 26, 2005 11:20 AM

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