Members Approve WS-ReliableMessaging as OASIS Standard

New Standard Assures Secure Message Exchange Using Web Services

Boston, MA, USA; 21 June 2007 -- OASIS, the international open standards
consortium, today announced that its members have approved  Web Services
Reliable Messaging (WS-ReliableMessaging) version 1.1 as an OASIS Standard, a
status that signifies the highest level of ratification. WS-ReliableMessaging
allows messages to be transferred reliably despite failures in software
components, systems, or networks. It enables a broad range of reliability
features, including ordered delivery, duplicate elimination, and guaranteed
receipt.

"Reliable messaging is one of the features customers demand most as they move
to electronic business. The problem is that messages can be lost, repeated, or
reordered, and host systems can fail," explained Paul Fremantle of WSO2,
co-chair of the OASIS Web Services Reliable Exchange (WS-RX) Technical
Committee. "WS-ReliableMessaging addresses all these risks by providing a
modular mechanism that identifies, tracks, and manages the reliable transfer of
messages between a source and a destination."

Sanjay Patil of SAP, co-chair of the OASIS WS-RX Technical Committee, added,
"WS-ReliableMessaging delivers a key element in the openness of an enterprise
service-oriented architecture (SOA) and provides a critical building block that
can be used in conjunction with other specifications and application-specific
protocols to reliably handle a wide variety of SOA requirements and scenarios."

The extensible nature of WS-ReliableMessaging allows additional functionality,
such as security, to be tightly integrated. It incorporates a SOAP binding for
interoperability and allows additional bindings to be defined. The protocol can
be implemented with a variety of robustness characteristics ranging from
in-memory persistence scoped to a single process lifetime, to replicated
durable storage that is recoverable in the most extreme circumstances.

OASIS president and CEO, Patrick Gannon, noted, "WS-ReliableMessaging
integrates with and complements the WS-Security OASIS Standard as well as other
Web services specifications. Combining these standards offers companies many
reliable, secure messaging options."

The WS-ReliableMessaging OASIS Standard was developed by representatives of
Adobe, BEA Systems, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, IONA, Microsoft, NEC, Nortel,
Novell, Oracle, Progress Software, Red Hat, SAP, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO,
webMethods, and others.  The WS-ReliableMessaging OASIS Standard and the
archives of the OASIS WS-RX Technical Committee work are publicly accessible.
OASIS hosts the ws-reliablemessaging-dev mailing list for exchanging
information on implementing the standard.

Support for WS-ReliableMessaging OASIS Standard

ACORD
"On behalf of ACORD, we welcome the official release of the
WS-ReliableMessaging OASIS Standard. ACORD is committed to Web services
standards as part of its Service Oriented Architecture strategy and has been
working for several years with its members on a profile for Web service
protocols based on insurance industry use cases. WS-ReliableMessaging is a
piece of the puzzle we have been critically expecting in support of robust
message exchange, flexible deployment of services, and mass transit on the
Internet. We are strongly encouraging the implementation of this set of
protocols in software libraries and tools, in support of Web services
deployment in the insurance industry," said Lloyd Chumbley, Assistant Vice
President of Standards, ACORD.

Adobe
"Interoperable reliable messaging is a critical component in enabling
real-world distributed Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).
WS-ReliableMessaging provides a framework for reliable and robust exchange of
business information as part of Web services and SOA, enabling the enterprise
to realize reliable integration and collaborative business processes leveraging
disparate applications," said Charlton Barreto, Senior Computer Scientist and
Architect, Adobe Systems.

BEA Systems
"The acceptance of WS-ReliableMessaging as an OASIS Standard represents an
important milestone in the development of reliable, secure services that can
leverage today's heterogeneous infrastructures. Ensuring that messages are
delivered, eliminating duplicate messages, and delivering messages in the order
they are sent are fundamental capabilities for building flexible, SOA-based
applications. With the standardization of WS-ReliableMessaging, BEA Systems
plans to continue its commitment to and leadership in Web services standards,"
said Gilbert Pilz, Sr. Principal Technologist, Office of the CTO, BEA Systems,
Inc.

Hitachi
"Enterprise systems are nothing if they are not reliable, and no Web service
that employed intermediaries could be reliable until now. WS-ReliableMessaging
is widely adopted. Platform users can now have high confidence that this core
functionality will be available to them on a variety of platforms from most
enterprise vendors. We thank the committee for all of its work in resolving the
many challenges that arose in the production of this specification. Hitachi
anticipates that this result has been worth the work," said Takao Nakamura,
Executive General Manager, Software Division, Hitachi Ltd.

Microsoft
"Microsoft is pleased to see WS-ReliableMessaging 1.1 become an approved
standard. Product interoperability is increasingly important, and we believe
that the addition of reliable message exchange to the suite of standard WS-*
protocols will benefit both customers and the industry," said Omri Gazitt, a
Product Unit Manager at Microsoft.

Oracle
"Oracle is committed to driving standards that facilitate the development of
modular business services that can be easily integrated and reused--creating
flexible, adaptable IT infrastructures. The new WS-ReliableMessaging standard
will help provide an interoperable way to guarantee message delivery to
applications or Web services, which is an essential capability for implementing
Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs)," said Don Deutsch, vice president
Standards Strategy and Architecture, Oracle.  

Red Hat
"With WS-Security and WS-Transaction having been approved as OASIS Standards,
WS-ReliableMessaging is the last key component to enable secure, reliable and
transacted Web services in an interoperable fashion. We're pleased to have been
associated with such an important standard," said Mark Little, Director of
Standards for Red Hat.

Sun Microsystems
"We are pleased to have contributed to the standardization of this much-needed
software infrastructure component. Wide industry support for the
WS-ReliableMessaging 1.1 standard will lead to highly interoperable Web
Services stacks, making this technology ubiquitous for users who require robust
service-oriented applications. It will be a welcome addition to the Web
Services capabilities (JAX-WS) of Sun Java(TM) System Application Server, Open
Source Project Glassfish, and Sun Java(TM) System SE/EE," said Thomas Kincaid,
executive director, Application Platforms, Sun Microsystems.

Additional information:

WS-ReliableMessaging 1.1 OASIS Standard
http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php#wsrx-rm1.1

OASIS WS-RX Technical Committee
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ws-rx/

Cover Pages Technology Report: Reliable Messaging
http://xml.coverpages.org/reliableMessaging.html

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