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Layer 7 Technologies Achieves WS-Policy Interoperability with Leading SOA Vendors

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Layer 7 Technologies, a leader in XML Security and Networking, has announced successful Web Services Policy (WS-Policy) interoperability with top Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) application and middleware vendors, including SAP, IBM, BEA, Sun, and Microsoft. This achievement marks a significant milestone in the adoption of WS-Policy, an emerging W3C standard for expressing security, reliability, and transactibility requirements of interacting Web services in an SOA. The company's participation in the SAP-hosted WS-Policy Interoperability Workshop held in Walldorf, Germany, has demonstrated its commitment to enabling interoperable configuration, discovery, and enforcement of advanced operational semantics.

Key Takeaways:

  • Layer 7 Technologies is the only XML Gateway vendor to have participated in the SAP-hosted WS-Policy Interoperability Workshop, showcasing its leadership in WS-Policy adoption.
  • WS-Policy is an emerging W3C standard that expresses security, reliability, and transactibility requirements of interacting Web services in an SOA.
  • Anne Thomas Manes, VP & Research Director at Burton Group, believes that WS-Policy provides the missing ingredient in WS------ that will enable interoperable configuration, discovery, and enforcement of advanced operational semantics.
  • Microsoft's Ari Bixhorn, Director of Web Services Strategy, considers WS-Policy a vital component of the WS------ architecture and a key feature of Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation.
  • Dr. Toufic Boubez, CTO of Layer 7 Technologies, highlights that WS-Policy is central to delivering loosely-coupled Web services for flexible business integration.
  • The Layer 7 SecureSpan XML Gateway supports WS-Policy, enabling enterprises to preserve flexibility without compromising security, scalability, and manageability.

Statistics:

  • Layer 7 Technologies participated in the SAP-hosted WS-Policy Interoperability Workshop held in Walldorf, Germany.
  • WS-Policy is an emerging W3C standard for expressing security, reliability, and transactibility requirements of interacting Web services in an SOA.
  • 5 leading SOA application and middleware vendors, including SAP, IBM, BEA, Sun, and Microsoft, have achieved WS-Policy interoperability with Layer 7 Technologies.
  • The Layer 7 SecureSpan XML Gateway provides award-winning XML threat protection, data validation, message-level security, acceleration, and service mediation functions.

Sources:

  • Layer 7 Technologies (www.layer7tech.com)
  • SAP-hosted WS-Policy Interoperability Workshop
  • Anne Thomas Manes, VP & Research Director at Burton Group
  • Ari Bixhorn, Director of Web Services Strategy for Microsoft
  • Dr. Toufic Boubez, CTO of Layer 7 Technologies

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