WS-ReliableMessaging Facts

This document provides facts related to WS-ReliableMessaging for usage in the written part of my diploma thesis.

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What is WS-ReliableMessaging?

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Secure, Reliable, Transacted Web Services [FS03]
  • In an Internet world, almost all communication channels are unreliable. Messages disappear. Connections break.
  • defines mechanisms that enable Web services to ensure delivery of messages over unreliable communication networks (unique identifiers, provide sequence numbers, and use retransmission when messages are lost)
  • ensures services implement interoperable approaches, and also enables runtime vendors to ease application development by providing services that implement the protocols. This significantly simplifies the task of application development. Business logic then has far fewer error conditions that it must handle.
  • Finally, the industry has a rich set of message-oriented middleware for reliably routing and distributing messages. Each implementation uses proprietary protocols. WS-Reliable Messaging protocols allow different operating and middleware systems to reliably exchange message. Thus, it supports bridging two different infrastructures into a single, logically complete, end-to-end model.