TheServerSide.NET’s Jack Vaughan posed some questions on interoperability to Microsoft’s Jorgen Thelin shortly after a recent Interop Plugfest in Redmond. Thelin is senior program manager, Connected Systems Interoperability Standards. He said that, in the relatively short time that SOAP has been around, interoperability has improved.At each of the several ‘plug-fests,’  he said: “We’ve seen more companies covering more specification areas and getting more tests to pass. There are still a few minor areas where companies are working on finishing their product implementations and fixing bugs uncovered during the interop testing, but overall the industry is in a great shape.”

He continued: “Most of the bugs we uncover during these interoperability testing events now have changed significantly from the type of questions that we got in the early days. Rather than questions like how particular data types should be represented in SOAP messages on the wire, we now see higher level concerns like whether a WS-ReliableMessaging endpoint is sending the right protocol messages in the expected order when combined with WS-SecureConversation, or whether a program is signed the right parts of a SOAP message with the right digital signature mechanisms specified in the security policy for a web service.”  Read more

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