Summary

The advanced Web service specifications that extend the Web Services model and enable enterprises to build great Web Services are truly outstanding. Many specifications exist already or are in production. The IT community is demanding the chance to use these specifications immediately in creating their enterprise-level Web Services. Many corporations have been unable to implement Web Services to a great extent because the services lacked many essential features such as security and the capability to properly encrypt messages.

Now the implementation of these specifications is appearing in a number of vendors' platforms. This chapter introduced the Microsoft implementation with this third release of the WSE. Using it, businesses can take a new and fresh look at the Web Services model and how it can play in their distributed application environment.