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IBM Donates Web Services Invocation Framework to Apache

Posted by krow on from the yet-another-framework dept.

SharkaRockz writes "IBM recently donated the Web Service Invocation Framework (WSIF) to Apache.org. This article explains the WSIF donation and what it can do. WSIF is a simple Java API that allows both SOAP and non-SOAP services to be described and used in a common way thus allowing developers to make Web services without the constraints of SOAP."

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  1. Historical Irony by fm6 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I guess you have to be as old as I am to ignore the lame puns and notice the irony of IBM's role in the Open Source movement. Time was when IBM was super-proprietary -- they even had their own character code. But when mainframes went away, all of IBM exclusive tech went with it, and they became just another player in the microcomputer market. Now they're giving their tech way in order to get it accepted as a standard!