Project Tango - Java Web Services interoperability with .NET 3.x

Abstract

Metro is Sun's web services stack built into the GlassFish application server. It also runs in other containers (e.g., Tomcat) and standalone. This talk will focus on the Tango portion of Metro that provides advanced web service interoperability with Microsoft's Windows Communications Foundation in .NET 3.0 (and soon 3.5). Sun and Microsoft engineers have, and continue to work together to ensure interoperability between these platforms.

The talk will start with an overview of Tango features: WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-AtomicTransactions and Tango infrastructure: WS-Coordination, WS-MEX, WS-Policy, WS-SecurityPolicy and WS-Addressing. A demo will then show how easy it is to build a web service featuring Reliable Messaging using NetBeans. The next demo will show Brokered Trust between .NET managed domains and Java managed domains. The next demo will show a .NET web client built into Microsoft Excel communicating with a Metro-based web service. The final demo will show interaction between Metro's WS-Trust implementation and Microsoft's CardSpace.

Attendees will learn how and when to use the Tango features in Metro. They will also understand that they do not need to read nor understand the specifications behind these features. Instead they will learn the ease-of-use point-and-click NetBeans interface to these features---no programming required.

Speaker

Harold Carr