WS-Addressing Interop is Achieved!

I'm a couple of days late, but still thought I'd share.

WS-Addressing is currently in the process of becoming a W3C Recommendation.  There are a bunch of steps in that process (think School House Rocks, “I'm just a bill ...”).  One of those steps is the “Candidate Recommendation” step.  That's where the Core and Soap specs are today.

In order to get to the next step (”Proposed Recommendation”), one of the requirements that the working group put in place was that we achieved a certain level of practical interop between vendors.  Specifically, the Working Group wanted there to be at least four different implementations that interoperated on all of the required features of WS-Addressing and at least two different implementations that interoperated on all of the optional features of WS-Addressing.

Towards that goal, a sub-group of the working group spun-up to start tackle interop testing.

After 3 months of work, we achieved our goal two days ago: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/testsuite/report/.

Specifically, the Microsoft, IBM, Sun, WS02, and JBoss implementations demonstrated full interop on the required features.  The Microsoft, WS02, and JBoss implementations demonstrated full interop on the optional features.

Now on to PR!