Podcasts

in this podcast Prabath Siriwardene talks to Oxygen Tank on the OpenID integration of WSO2 Identity Solution. The integration enhances the WSO2 Identity Solution to cater to a wider audience for Web based authentication. OpenID is a key feature in decentralizing single sign-on, much favored by many users.

Eran Chinthaka in his podcast talks to Oxygen Tank on what asynchronous Web services invocation is and why it is required in Web Services. He goes on to explain how it is being implemented in Axis2, Apache's Web Services engine, and why it was required to switch to asynchronous Web services from WS Invocation Framework that was used prior.

In this podcast, Lahiru Sandakith of WSO2 talks to Oxygen Tank about the importance and advantages of having IDE tools such as Eclipse and IDEA in the WSO2 Web Services Application Server and also how one can use them to easily create and deploy Web services.

In this podcast, Ruchith Fernando talks about Rahas, the WS-Trust implementation of Apache Rampart. He talks about the architecture of Rahas and how you can extend it.

Eran Chinthaka joins us again this week on Oxygen Tank Podcasts to talk about Apache Axiom, the StAX based, XML Infoset object model. Apache Axiom was initially developed as part of the Apache Axis2 project but was recently spun off on its own. In this podcast, find out how Axiom optimizes SOAP processing and how the advantages of deferred building help to improve the performance of a Web service engine.

Dana Gardner takes you through a sponsored BriefingsDirect podcast on the energized entrant into the Open Source Web services stack and SOA Infrastructure - WSO2's robust and lightweight, purely services and standards based stack and infrastructure. He speaks to Paul Fremantle of WSO2 on the new approach and philosophy to Open Source and Web services support, and Ronald Schmelzer on how Open Source products define features and infrastructure areas of Service-Oriented Architecture.

W3C announced the advancement of the WSDL version 2.0 to the Proposed Recommendation status recently. WSDL models describe modular Web services and is used to document distributed systems and to automate communication between applications. In this podcast, Eran Chinthaka talks about WSDL 2.0 support in the WSO2 Web Services Application Server.

This podcast by Sanka Samaranayake emphasizes on the role and importance of WS-Policy and it's Apache implementation, Apache Neethi in Web services deployment. He also speaks on the standardization process of WS-policy, WS-Policy assertions and how to use WS-Policy as a configuration language for Web services extensions.