Challenges in WS development

1) Work with large and user base.
Solution:
Audit & monitoring.
Multifactor authentication.

2) Long life cycle.
Solution:
Choose solution based on industry standards.

3) Robustness.
Solution:
Architect the solution that will work even if some of it components will go down.

4) Manageability.
Solution:
Take care at monitoring, backup, upgrade.

 5) Integration with legacy applications.
Solution:
Look for interface of other applications.

WS stack technologies review

Recently I started to invest time in learning of web services.
I have learnt the basics of WSDL 1.1.
Now I'm trying to understand other aspects of WS. Where are a lot of WS-* technologies. Some of them are obsolete, some are not supported. So the aim of this post is to understand the widely adopted specifications and the possible use cases for them.