Now here is a continuation of my little science project “How does TCP Transport work in Indigo?” I noticed that the preamble that contains the location URL and the content type has a few length headers: Now the $64000 question…
Category: Web Services
The new NetBeans web services client is quite nice. It is now almost as easy as with Visual Studio to integrate a web service into your application: After pointing the IDE to the WSDL, it generates the necessary proxies and…
It seems obvious that the data in our web services needs to be framed. In the good old days, where all transport was HTTP this was rather trivial: HTTP headers are rich, and can describe Content-Type, Length etc. But what…
During PDC, I learned that the WS-Policy vocabulary in WCF (formerly “Indigo”) can be extended through IPolicyImporter/IPolicyExporter and IWSDLConverter. I guess I will play around with this in the next couple of week … Meanwhile, anybody who did this already?
There are a lot of things happening in the Indigo world, particularly in the interoperability area. Some notable pieces of information: The latest build include the WSFederationBinding, which enables the use of SAML tokens within WCF. Based on the Claims…
Please check out this excellent article on te Windows Communication Foundation (formerly “Indigo”) by Clemens Vasters. He explains the basic ABC (Address, Binding, Contract) in Indigo and shows how it maps to WSDL service, binding, and portType. It is a…
While Liberty has a very rich framework for SSO, it does not define a comprehensive infrastructure protocol framework for SOAP/XML web services. While this might look as a limitation, it can also be a strength: it’s non-dependance on SOAP, WSDL…