Java and .NET

Today sun announced its commitment to implementing WS-* specs and interoperability with Microsoft's upcoming Windows Communication Foundation or WCF, a.k.a. Indigo. Indigo is the next generation web services technology in their Vista (a.k.a. Longhorn) platform and would be a major piece for their SOA story.

The WS-* specs include:

The specifications include:

• WS-Addressing
• MTOM (Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism)
• WS-Policy
• WS-MetadataExchange
• WS-Security
• WS-Trust
• WS-SecureConversation
• WS-ReliableMessaging
• WS-Coordination
  

From the above list, I happen to be the MTOM lead and right now in the middle of action at Microsoft's Redmond campus in the interoperability plugfest :-) I will be blogging more about it but mostly on java.net.