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Sun (sleepless) in Seattle

Posted by arungupta on November 16, 2005 at 09:19 AM | Comments (0)

Although it drizzled in Seattle most of last week, but Sun was prominent at least in one corner. 5 of us (Harold, Vivek, Mike, Manveen and myself) from Sun Microsystems attended the Microsoft hosted plugfest last week. This is part of Sun's effort to improve interoperability between Java and Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation or WCF (a.k.a. Indigo). Indigo is Microsoft's Web services platform.

Sun announced embracing a handful of technologies that are key to Indigo. An implementation of these technologies will be available as part of Glassfish and Java Web Services Developer Pack. I co-own the responsibility (with Mike) for delivering WS-Addressing technology in the Java platform.

In the plugfest, we took our WS-Addressing, MTOM, Security and Reliable Messaging implementations and had a good success rate on interoperability results. In some cases, we had a combination of these technologies working together as well, such WS-Addressing + MTOM and Security + MTOM. Reliable Messaging anyway depends upon WS-Addressing.

It was really great to meet our "new" (not so "new" now) friend and the people behind all these technologies. Kirill and Jorgen, the guys behind organizing this plugfest, were there all the time. I met Mike Vernal who is responsible for delivering WS-Addressing in Indigo. I worked closely with Hao and Pompi on debugging WS-Addressing interoperability issues. Having achieved good results for on-the-wire interop, Vipul and I talked about about the ease of programming in JAX-WS when using Indigo generated WSDLs. It was great to know that programming model ease is equally important to both Sun and Microsoft. This would allow a JAX-WS client to import an Indigo WSDL and code intuitively, without any additional wrapper classes. I also talked with Daniel Roth who is responsible for delivering Metadata Exchange in Indigo. It was nice meeting Jeffrey Schlimmer who explained the programming model of Indigo. Microsoft also hosted a dinner on wednesday night (11/9) where I met Omri (in fact I was sitting right across him). We had good friendly conversations and I was glad to know Microsoft has a JWSDP installation in their internal interop environment. And we, of course, do care about Indigo which is why we participated in the plugfest.

Other vendors participated in the plugfest as well and I enjoyed spending time with Dims (Apache), Eric (Oracle) and Steve (SAP) particularly. I know these guys through other venues.

[1] also talks about how Sun plans to boost Java and .Net interoperability. See Vivek's blog about Sun's participation in the plugfest.

The "sleepless" part in the title refers to the long days and short nights we spent in Seattle in order to keep our customers happy by providing out-of-the-box interoperability between Sun and Microsoft's products, not only on-the-wire but ease of use as well.

Technorati: Glassfish Indigo Web Services