Evaluation of WS-* Standards Based Interoperability of SOA Products for the Hungarian e-Government Infrastructure

Abstract

The proposed architecture of the Hungarian e-Government Framework, mandating the functional cooperation of independent organizations, puts special emphasis on interoperability. WS-* standards have been created to reach uniformity and interoperability in the common middleware tasks for web services such as security, reliable messaging and transactions. These standards, however, while existing for some time, have implementations slightly different in quality. In order to assess implementations, thorough tests should be performed, and relevant test cases ought to be accepted. For selecting mature SOA products for e-Government application, a methodology of such an assessment is needed. We have defined a flexible and extensible test bed and a set of test cases for SOA products considering three aspects: compliance with standards, interoperability and development support.

Interoperability and Functionality of WS-* Implementations

“…In so far, these kind of approaches and our approach can be considered to complement each other. (Simon, László et al 2010) present an interoperability assessment of SOA products with respect to WS-* standards for the Hungarian e-Government infrastructure. They evaluate only two security related test cases, but six SOA products and conclude that some products (including Metro/GlassFish) are mature for WS-* interoperability.…”