WSRM 1.1 is an OASIS Standard

The press announcement will go out soon, but for avid followers of the WS-RX technical committee, I can confirm that WSRM 1.1 is really, finally, truly, honestly an OASIS standard. You can see it here:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrm/200702/wsrm-1.1-spec-os-01.pdf

We finally made it!

If you've followed my blog you know about my previous history of optimism (known as counting chickens before they've hatched), so this time I waited until the documents were officially posted to let you know that WSRM is finally a standard.

Let me take this moment to recap what WSRM is and offers:

• An interoperable wire protocol for Reliable Messaging based on SOAP and WS-Addressing
  
• Support for Exactly-Once, At-Least-Once, At-Most-Once and Ordered delivery
• The ability to offer two-way reliable messaging even through firewalls, NAT, etc. (So you can sit in Starbucks and have your RM Agent reliably deliver and collect your purchase orders for the day over the Starbucks Wifi)
• We've tested and shown interoperability between IBM, Microsoft and Apache/WSO2, and we will do more testing in the coming months
• Composability with SSL and WS-Security to ensure that the RM channel itself isn't a target for attacks
• Support for binary messages through composability with MTOM
  
• Support from a wide variety of software companies and organizations, including IBM, Microsoft, BEA, Tibco, JBoss/Redhat, Apache, WSO2 (of course!), Hitachi, Fujitsu, NEC, Nokia, Ericsson, and plenty of others

As co-chair of the working group I want to offer my special thanks to Sanjay Patil, my co-chair, without whom I think I would have gone mad! While the whole TC worked very hard, I think its fair to say that there were a few people who really made this happen. Without denigrating the efforts of the rest of TC, I'd like to call attention to the work done by Doug Davis from IBM, Gilbert Pilz from BEA, Tom Rutt from Fujitsu, and Marc Goodner from Microsoft. As the most active editors of the spec, the issues manager, and the secretary of the TC, this team really did the hard monkey work!