Bereits seit einigen Tagen sind die June 2006 CTPs des Guidance Automation Toolkits sowie der Web Services Factory zum Download verfügbar.

Bereits seit Donnerstag ist der May CTP der Service Factory zum Download verfügbar.

Highlights des CTP's:

• An entire guidance package dedicated to securing your services using:
• X.509 certificates
• Kerberos
• Direct authentication using Windows, ADAM, or SQL
• A MEX based policy generator to help you secure your client applications
• A partially complete Interop configurator to help you apply security policy based on your interop requirements
• Improved documentation
• A new reference implementation

Don Smith hat 2 Videos zur Einführung in die Service Factory erstellt:

• Service Factory: A Brief Introduction
• Service Factory: Contracts

Das vor einigen Tagen angekündigte Service Baseline Architecture Toolkit (Service BAT) heißt jetzt Web Service Software Factory. Viel wichtiger jedoch: seit gestern ist der erste Community Drop zum Download verfügbar.

Details finden sich im Announcement bei Tom Hollander.

Ab morgen oder spätestens Anfang nächster Woche soll das Service Baseline Architecture Toolkit zum Download bei GotDotNet bereitstehen.

Doch was ist das Service Baseline Architecture Toolkit?

Es handelt sich hierbei um das (damals noch so genannte) Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT) für Webservices und Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), das Christian Weyer bei seinem Services-Talk beim Visual Studio 2005 Launch-Event im Februar in Karlsruhe vorgestellt hatte (aber nicht gelauncht ;-)).

Details zum (jetzt) Serivice BAT gibt es hier und hier.

The Web Service Security Guide "Scenarios, Patterns, and Implementation Guidance for Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0" is available for download as PDF from here.

If you do anything in the integration/web-services space, you should read Jason Hogg's articles "Introduction, Integration and Securing Web Services"

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

This guide will help you quickly make the most appropriate security decisions in the context of your Web service's requirements while providing the rationale and education for each option. A scenario-driven approach is provided to demonstrate situations where different security patterns are successful. The guide also combines a series of decision matrices to assist you in applying your own criteria to use the Web service security patterns to meet the requirements of your environment.

Web Services Enhancements 3.0 is available for download since a few days.

If you want to know about the new features shipped with WSE 3.0, you should take a look at the readme.

To get started with WSE 3.0 you should try out the Hands On Labs:

• Web Services Enhancements 3.0 Hands On Lab - Exploring Security
• Web Services Enhancements 3.0 Hands On Lab - Exploring Messaging

"Mark Fussell discusses the driving goals for the WSE 3.0 release, how security best practices have been incorporated by introducing "turnkey security scenarios" and the relationship between WSE 3.0 and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), the future Web Services platform from Microsoft."