WS-Reliability Content on InfoQ

Nobody Needs Reliable Messaging by Marc de Graauw Posted on Jun 18, 2010 Marc de Graauw challenges the notion that transport-level reliability mechanisms like WS-ReliableMessaging are needed, showing how business-specific logic for in-order and exactly-once processing do the job much better with examples from Dutch Healthcare's SOA.

Making Sense of all these Crazy Web Service Standards by Michele Leroux Bustamante Posted on May 16, 2007 Michele Leroux Bustamante explains the most relevant WS-* standards used today in terms of their actual implementation among WS platforms (with a focus on Java and .NET), their level of adoption and readiness. If you are new to web services or to the WS* protocols, or you are having difficulty keeping up with the pace of change in this area, this article should help.