There ware two sessions at Sun JavaOne this year on Tango, interesting and well presented.
The PDF of the presentations are available online now at: Microsoft SOA Interop (last section is Tango) http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/j1sessn.jsp?sessn=TS-8882&yr=2007&track=7 An from the Sun side http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/j1sessn.jsp?sessn=TS-8840&yr=2007&track=7 Simon Plant Gervas Douglas wrote: > > <<Project Tango is an open source initiative for the implementation of > Web services technologies involving optimization, reliability, > security and atomic transactions. It is a joint venture by Sun > Microsystems and Microsoft, intended to provide interoperability > between Sun's Java Web services and Microsoft's Windows Communication > Foundation (WCF). An important component of Project Tango is known as > Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT), which facilitates the > development and maintenance of composite applications for service > oriented architecture (SOA). Sometimes the terms "Project Tango" and > "WSIT" are used interchangeably. > > In the context of Project Tango, reliability ensures that a > communications system is able to recover from failures caused by lost > or misdirected messages. This is done by a function called > WS-ReliableMessaging that can be activated by means of a checkbox in a > GUI (graphical user interface) called NetBeans. A specification called > WS-Security facilitates the integrity and confidentiality of messages, > even when they must pass through intermediaries. WS-Security can be > implemented in addition to existing security technologies. Atomic > transactions technology is designed to ensure that all operations > within a transaction are successfully carried out. If any operation > fails, all other operations in the transaction are aborted. Content > can be encoded in MIME (Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions) or XML > (Extensible Markup Language) to optimize communication speed.>> > > Do any of you have any direct experience of Tango as described above? > If so it would be interesting to read your opinion of it. > > Gervas > >
