Microsoft, Sun do web services interoperability

Sun Microsystems continues to be friendly with Microsoft, at least for making its open-source application server ("Glassfish") interoperate with the communications protocols in the upcoming Windows Vista-era servers. The results of a Microsoft plugfest last week were fairly successful at messaging, metadata, security and quality of service, Sun engineers wrote on their blogs.

For more on the interop:
- read this eWeek article

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