The Web Services Working Group of the Interactive Financial Exchange (IFX) Forum is expected to deliver four reference implementations of Web services recommendations at the group's quarterly meeting next week, which will be hosted by Microsoft. These will include working Web Services Description Language, schema and downloadable examples -- three Java and one .NET, according to Richard Urban, president of the IFX Forum, based in Falls Church, Va. He said the group has also completed the first draft of the Web services implementation guide.
The IFX Forum is a not-for-profit standards organization working to develop an XML-based framework and messaging standards for the electronic business-to-business exchange of data among financial service institutions around the world.
The forum's current working groups are: ATM/POS (automated teller machine/point of sale), business banking, Web services and branch banking services.
