Long-time Microsoft XML hand Jonathan Marsh is now part of WSO2, an engineering group devoted to building Web services middleware. An associated WSO2.org developer portal is now featuring a discussion with Jonathan about February’s W3C workshop on the “Web of Services for Enterprise Computing.” 

Marsh discusses the need for increasing the interoperability Basis for WS-*. He has noted a need to continue to focus on practical demonstrations of Web Services interoperability. He sees more emphasis of late on application demos, less emphasis on displays of Web Services interoperability.

He writes: “A return to the roots of Web Services, maximizing interoperability through open communication between developers, and between their implementations, would solidify industry confidence in Web Services as a solid basis for interoperability.”

He sees a much richer ecosystem of  specification, but the interoperability of stacks is still ‘a little bit iffy.” He’d like to see a working group to deal with interoperability problems going forward. Read a paper Jonathan Marsh wrote on interoperability for the W3C site.

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