January 2011
Intermediate to advanced
507 pages
13h 27m
English
book
Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation
by Chris Peiris, Dennis Mulder, Shawn Cicoria, Amit Bahree, Nishith Pathak
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Summary
One of the key objectives of SOA is to obtain interoperability between heterogeneous platforms. WCF achieves this objective by implementing common standards that are endorsed by competitive vendors. IBM, Sun, BEA, and the Tibco products comply with WCF by implementing WSIT standards. These are available today as open source offerings. WCF also complies with Basic Profile to be compatible with the early web service offerings.
Some of these WSIT standards include bootstrapping communication (WS-MetaDataExchange), securing communication (WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-Security, and WS-Trust), optimizing communication (MTOM and WS-SecureConversation), enablingreliability (WS-ReliableMessaging), and enabling atomic transactions (WS-Coordination and ...