There we have it, then.

So - how long until we see it in our portal products?\

Paul

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> From: "Carol Geyer" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu Sep 11, 2003 19:14:15 Europe/London
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> Subject: WSRP Approved as OASIS Standard
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> Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) Approved as OASIS Standard
>
> BEA Systems, Citrix Systems, Factiva, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle,
> Plumtree Software, Reed Elsevier, SAP, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO,
> Vignette, and Other OASIS Members Standardize Integration of
> User-Facing
> Web Services
>
> Boston, MA, USA; 11 September 2003 -- The OASIS standards consortium
> today announced that its members have approved Web Services for Remote
> Portlets (WSRP) version 1.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that
> signifies the highest level of ratification. WSRP standardizes the
> consumption of Web services in portal front ends, as well as the way in
> which content providers write Web services for portals.
>
> "WSRP defines how Web services plug into portals," explained Delphi
> president, Thomas Koulopoulos. "Once a WSRP service is published to a
> public directory, portal administrators are able to locate and
> dynamically integrate it with just a few mouse clicks. WSRP is a
> critcal
> standard enabling distributed portals to share portlets as visual,
> user-facing Web services for integration with other portals."
>
> WSRP eliminates the need for content aggregators to choose between
> locally hosting a content source or writing code specific to each
> remote
> content source. Instead, WSRP allows content to be hosted in the
> environment most suitable for its execution while still being easily
> accessed by content aggregators. The standard enables content producers
> to maintain control over the code that formats the presentation of
> their
> content. By reducing the cost for aggregators to access their content,
> WSRP increases the rate at which content sources may be easily
> integrated into pages for end-users.
>
> "The OASIS WSRP Technical Committee was founded in early 2002 with the
> vision of providing a single interface standard for all interactive,
> presentation-oriented Web services. WSRP v1.0 succeeds in providing
> this
> platform neutral definition of an interface," said Rich Thompson of
> IBM,
> chair of the OASIS WSRP Technical Committee. "Early vendor support for
> WSRP--weve tracked eight implementations to date--clearly demonstrates
> the need for this standardized means of accessing remote content."
>
> "WSRP builds on foundational work from the Worldwide Web Consortium
> (W3C)," said Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS. "WSRP uses
> WSDL
> to describe interfaces, and requires SOAP bindings for all conformant
> services. WSRP is an excellent example of how an open, standards-based
> approach will enable end-user interactive web services to be deployed
> in
> a lower cost, faster-to-implement, plug-and-play environment."
>
> WSRP allows remote portlet Web services to be implemented in a variety
> of ways, including Java/J2EE and Microsoft's .NET platform.
>
> WSRP is the result of a collaboration of 25 OASIS member companies
> including BEA Systems, Citrix Systems, Factiva, IBM, Microsoft, Novell,
> Oracle, Plumtree Software, Reed Elsevier, SAP, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO,
> and Vignette. It joins a growing portfolio of OASIS Standards and
> specifications for Web services including Universal Description,
> Discovery, and Integration of Web Services (UDDI), Web Services
> Business
> Process Language (WSBPEL), Web Services for Distributed Management
> (WSDM), Web Services for Reliable Messaging (WSRM), WS-Security, and
> others. OASIS currently has more than 60 active technical committees.
>
> Industry Support for WSRP
>
> BEA Systems
> "WSRP 1.0 is an important step forward in expanding the reach and
> ubiquity of portal technologies by providing standards that extend
> customer applications to support federated portals," said Shane
> Pearson,
> Group Product Manager, WebLogic Portal, BEA Systems, Inc (NASDAQ:
> BEAS).
> "The increase in available content and applications, combined with the
> ease of deployment and consistent APIs of the Java Portlet
> Specification, both of which are available to BEA developers today,
> will
> increase the return on investment and usefulness of portal solutions."
>
> Computer Associates
> "By providing a 'plug-n-play' standard that enables developers to
> capture portal content from compliant sources and make that content
> available to users in readily accessible portlets, WSRP unleashes the
> full potential power of Web services," said Dmitri Tcherevik, vice
> president and director of Web services at CA. "CA is committed to
> supporting WSRP in our CleverPath information delivery solutions, and
> providing the security and management support necessary to ensure that
> WSRP-based business solutions are safe, reliable and scalable."
>
> Factiva
> "WSRP approval is a significant milestone for OASIS and for our
> customers, especially as their enterprise portal deployments continue
> to
> grow," said Mike Menna, associate vice president of Applications and
> Integration of Products for Factiva. "For Factiva, the approval of WSRP
> further validates our integration strategy dating back to early 2000.
> Going forward, we will continue to work with our fellow OASIS WSRP
> Technical Committee members to provide the best business intelligence
> content at the point of decision."
>
> IBM
> "As a co-author and a leader of the WSRP and JSR 168 initiatives, IBM
> is
> very glad to see that WSRP has been approved by OASIS as a formal
> standard. IBM, through WebSphere Portal, will be enabled to integrate
> WSRP services offered by any WSRP-compliant producer and to publish
> portlets running on WebSphere Portal as WSRP services," said Larry
> Bowden, vice president of Portals and Lotus products for IBM. "To push
> for the quick adoption of the WSRP OASIS Standard by providers of
> content and application services, IBM provides a free, open source
> implementation of WSRP based on Tomcat and the Java Portlet API (JSR
> 168) Reference Implementation at the Apache Software Foundation -
> WSRP4J
> (http://ws.apache.org/wsrp4j/), thus enabling third parties to
> implement
> WSRP services by implementing JSR 168 portlets and making them
> available
> as WSRP services which will plug into all WSRP-compliant portals."
>
> Plumtree
> "Plumtree was the first vendor to release a WSRP product to customers
> and one of the only vendors whose WSRP software is built for use on
> many
> different application servers. We've also demonstrated interoperability
> with all WSRP test implementations including those offered by BEA, IBM,
> Oracle, and Citrix," said Plumtree CEO, John Kunze. "Plumtree will
> continue its role as an active participant in the OASIS WSRP Technical
> Committee and other standards bodies. We also hope to guide standards
> beyond just portlets to include other key elements for building rich
> applications, such as Web services for indexing content, importing user
> profiles and security, and for federating searches. Creating a world of
> standardized, interoperable portals is an ambitious vision--the
> finalization of WSRP is an important first step."
>
> Sun Microsystems
> "We fully support the WSRP standard as it will be a key driver of Web
> services adoption in the portal marketplace," said David Bryant,
> director of marketing for the Sun ONE Portal Server, Sun Microsystems,
> Inc. "Sun is committed to helping our customers build federated portals
> that deliver easy access to services for their end-users through
> standards such as WSRP, Liberty, and JSR 168."
>
> Vignette
> "The WSRP OASIS Standard and its 'plug-and-play' structure for diverse
> user-facing Web applications, including portals, will help
> organizations
> rapidly assimilate information from across the enterprise to provide a
> better customer experience," said Ed Anuff, vice president of strategy
> at Vignette. "Vignette continues its long-standing push to define and
> promote open
> standards, in turn giving its customers maximum flexibility and the
> opportunity to reduce complexity while speeding deployment and time to
> benefit."
>
> WebCollage
> "As a leader in enabling companies to integrate interactive
> applications
> across Web systems, WebCollage is proud to have played a role in the
> development of the WSRP 1.0 specification, and we are pleased to see
> the
> support it has received," said Gil Tayar, Chief Technology Officer at
> WebCollage, Inc. "WSRP has the potential to do for interactive
> applications what SOAP did for the programmatic services, by making it
> easier and cost effective to integrate application functionality across
> a large number of portals. WebCollage customers benefit from the
> ability
> to repurpose existing Web applications as WSRP-enabled remote
> portlets."
>
>
>
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> Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the
> development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members
> themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open
> process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite
> disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web
> services, conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing,
> topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces.
> Founded
> in 1993, OASIS has more than 2,000 participants representing over 600
> organizations and individual members in 100 countries.
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