Microsoft readies kit for Web services
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Looking to drive industry adoption of its Web services standards proposals, Microsoft on Monday plans to announce availability of a software development kit featuring its own specifications. The Microsoft Web Services Development Kit (WSDK), to be available in a beta version Monday, will function with the company's Visual Studio .Net development platform. The free download will provide support for three Microsoft-driven specifications that the company wants adopted as industry standards: WS-Security, WS-Attachments, and WS-Routing.
A final kit is to be available in approximately two months, followed by periodic updates as new industry standards and specifications emerge, according to VanRoekel. But don't look for standards efforts from rival Sun Microsystems, such as the Web Services Choreography Interface (WSCI) submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), to be supported in the kit, VanRoekel said.