RE: Web Service Standards/certification

Hi, it seems to me we're looking for a WS validator? Try

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/indextech.cgi/wsvt-home/main.html?rev=1.5


-----Original Message-----
From: www-ws-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of
Newcomer, Eric
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 2:46 PM
To: Benton, Geoff; www-ws@w3.org
Subject: RE: Web Service Standards/certification



Check www.ws-i.org - they are doing some certification work for the basic
profile specs - SOAP 1.1, WSDL 1.1 and UDDI 2.0 - at this point a vendor's
assertion that they are WS-I compliant is probably your best bet.

For higher level specs there have been some vendor interop tests, see: 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/community/workshops/default.aspx

This page provides a list of the public results to date of these private
workshops. 

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Benton, Geoff [mailto:geoff.benton@hp.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 12:24 PM
To: www-ws@w3.org
Subject: Web Service Standards/certification



Hi there,

Is there anywhere that people can go to "certify" their web services
software?

What I mean is this...I am looking at a (great) product called
openadaptor as a way to link different data sources together.
openadaptor is able to read from files, databases, JMS queues....and web
services!  (It can read from loads of other types of sources as well :-)

But, saying that it can read "web services"...does that mean that I
could hook it up to any web service and it would work?

Now, before you all reply saying "it depends how they have written it."
- that's my point. Does it depend on how it's written? If I can connect
and read from one vendor's web service, can I connect and read from
another's?

So...my question is, are there any ways to "certify" some web services
software to say whether it conforms to any standard? or is it just "suck
it and see"?

Any thought?

Geoff

Received on Monday, 18 April 2005 08:11:30 UTC