Fifteen vendors with a common interest in distributed computing will show how they've been able to get the Web Services (WS) Security standard to work with each other's products next week.
IBM, Microsoft, BEA Systems and others are participating in the demonstration at Gartner's Application Integration and Web Services Summit next Wednesday. The demo will celebrate the one-year anniversary of WS-Security, a blueprint designed by OASIS members to ensure the secure exchange of messages between applications.
Software built on WS-Security could enable single sign-on Web services transactions, allowing users to shop or exchange info across different devices.
But as the industry trudges toward standards convergence, there remain some issues that need to be resolved among groups who want to establish Web services in different ways.
