NEC, Fujitsu and Hitachi have recently submitted a new document to the OASIS WS-RM Technical Committee (TC), for review as a possible Application Note or Technical Report on use of WS-Reliability together with the WS-Security standard. Both standards are needed if Web services are to extend beyond the firewall and used for company-to-company, SOAP/XML based transactions.
By composing WS-Reliability and WS-Security, it is possible to construct Web services that are both secure and provide reliable message delivery. This is vital for the success of Web services in ecommerce environments, where the integrity and reliability of external communications is of utmost importance. The "Composability Guideline of WS-Reliability and WS-Security" document describes several ways to make WS-Reliability and WS-Security work together, and describes XML implementations for each. The purpose of the document is to show that it is possible to use both specifications together to construct secure and reliable Web services.
