B.10. Microsoft

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

http://www.microsoft.com/net

http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/