Microsoft is a technology innovator in Web Services using its Visual Studio .NET product suite. Visual Studio .NET products have a considerable number of developers in the market for Web Services. Figure B-7 shows its global Web Services architecture. With IBM and VeriSign, it has jointly published Web Services roadmap specifications.
Application Server
ASP.NET server (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/Default.asp?contentid=28000440)
BizTalk server (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/Default.asp?contentid=28000399&frame=true)
Web Services Supporting Tools
SQL Server
Web Services Tools— for example, Web Services Development Kit (http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/topic.asp?URL=/MSDN-FILES/028/000/123/topic.xml)
Microsoft SOAP Toolkit
Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 1.0
Visual.NET studio
C#
Web Services Technology
Security— WS-Security, CAPICOM (PKI integration toolkit, refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/security/Security/cryptography_cryptoapi_and_capicom.asp)
WS-Routing
WS-Referral
WS-Addressing— refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/ws-addressing.asp for details
References
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