I assume Michael was referring to Sun. Project Tango<http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/glassfish/ProjectTango/>is a Java implementation that's part of the Glassfish project. It's primarily Sun's project with a little help from Microsoft to ensure interop between WSIT and WCF.
While it's true that WSO2 has not been deeply involved in the WS-* standardization effort, Sanjiva (Founder and CEO of WSO2) certainly has. You'll find his name in the author/contributor list of quite a few WS-* specifications. (He worked for IBM until he launched WSO2.) He was involved in the Apache SOAP project from the beginning (the first SOAP implementation), plus he has been involved in the Axis, Axis2, and Synapse projects. Although I'm not too keen about the fact that he used this list to promote his company, he has a point. Project Tango/WSIT is Sun's proprietary project that implements support for some of the newer WS-* specifications, including WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Trust, and WS-SecureConversation. The JCP has not yet defined standard APIs for supporting these specifications, so all implementations are proprietary. And Project Tango is not the only open source project that implements support for these specifications. Anne Anne On 6/7/07, Stefan Tilkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jun 6, 2007, at 10:45 PM, Michael Poulin wrote: > I find it an interesting combination of vendors - one which does > 'everything' via SOAP but not that active in SOA standardization Surely you are not talking about Microsoft as "a vendor not that active in SOA standardization"? Every relevant WS and WS-* spec has Microsoft among its authors (and not having them makes it almost irrelevant by definition). > and another one which never was a Web Services or SOA leader... > No disagreement here ;-) Stefan -- Stefan Tilkov, http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/
