WS-RM news

WS-RM and WS-RM Policy are now submitted to OASIS.

Twenty-five months after the first public announcement for the Web Services Reliable Messaging Protocol (WS-ReliableMessaging), the co-authors BEA Systems, IBM, Microsoft, and TIBCO have announced that the WS-ReliableMessaging and WS-RM Policy specifications will be submitted to OASIS for further refinement and finalization as a Web services standard.

In February 2005, WS-RM was re-published as two separate specifications: one for the core protocol elements and one for the related policy assertion. WS-ReliableMessaging "describes a protocol and SOAP binding that allows messages to be delivered reliably between distributed applications in the presence of software component, system, or network failures. The protocol is described in this specification in a transport-independent manner allowing it to be implemented using different network technologies. The protocol depends upon other Web services specifications for the identification of service endpoint addresses and policies." The Web Services Reliable Messaging Policy Assertion (WS-RM Policy) specification refactors the Reliable Messaging policy assertion into a discrete specification.