Hello Shripad, Some explanations from my side to avoid confusion in the answer:
WSE = The Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 for Microsoft(R) .NET is an add-on to Microsoft Visual Studio(R) 2005 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 that enables developers to build secure Web services based on the latest Web services protocol specifications [1]. Please note the word secure web services. Axis 1.x = Java framework (formerly know as "Apache SOAP") that implements the SOAP protocol (or a web service) [2] Then WSE cannot be compactible with Axis 1.x because WSE allows you develop secured web services and Axis 1.x allows you do develop web services. If I understood well your question should be: Is Axis 1.4 and WSS4J compactible with WSE 3.0? WSS4J being a Java implementation of OASIS Web Services Security (WS-Security) standard [3] and WSE 3.0 being a Microsoft implementation of of OASIS Web Services Security (WS-Security) standard. The whole question is to know if both technologies can interoperate/communicate between them. The answer in theory is yes. But making it work is another question... I may say that thanks to previous work from Erlend [4] I succeed making work WSE 3.0 using the X.509 Certificate Token Profile [5]. For further information please check a blog I wrote with some significant snapshots [6]. In my opinion, it depends on which Token Profile you would like to use you will face different challenges to solve. But I would say yes. The different Token Profiles are: Username, SAML, X.509 (the one I implemented and it works), Kerberos [7]. I will advice you to take a look to Axis2 as well. Hope all this information will help you! Happy axis! Jose Ferreiro [1] - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=018a09fd-3a74-43c5-8ec1-8d789091255d&displaylang=en [2] - http://wiki.apache.org/ws/FrontPage/Axis/AxisGeneral [3] - http://ws.apache.org/wss4j/ [4] - http://erlend.oftedal.no/blog/?blogid=12 [5] - http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php#wssv1.0 [6] - http://www.google.ch/search?q=Secure+Web+Services+Interoperability+using+X.509+Certificate+Token+Profile+(AXIS+1.4%2C+WSS4J+1.5.3%2C+dotnet+2.0%2C+WSE+3.0+) http://magnot.blogspot.com/2008/04/secure-web-services-interoperability.html [7] - http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php#wssv1.0 On 5/15/08, Shripad Gokhale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using axis 1.4 currently in my application. I want to know if it is > compactible with web services extension 3.0 (wse 3.0). Where can I get this > information? > > Thanks > > Shripad > > This message and the information contained herein is proprietary and > confidential and subject to the Amdocs policy statement, > you may review at http://www.amdocs.com/email_disclaimer.asp > > -- José Ferreiro EPFL Communication Systems engineer
