WS-I Forms Special Interest Group to Promote Activities in Japan
Accelerating the Promotion of Global Web Services Interoperability
TOKYO, May 30, 2003 — The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) today announced the formation of the WS-I Japan Special Interest Group. The mission of the newly formed group is to increase visibility for WS-I and to promote WS-I activities in Japan. WS-I is a global industry organization chartered to promote Web services interoperability across platforms, operating systems, and programming languages. As its first activity, the Japan Special Interest Group will promote WS-I at the XML Consortium Week conference to be held this week in Tokyo. The group is also developing a Japanese translation of the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 Working Draft and will make it public when it becomes available.
More than 15 WS-I member companies have joined the Japan Special Interest Group, including Beacon IT Inc.; BEA Systems Japan, Ltd.; Fujitsu Limited, Hewlett-Packard Japan, Ltd.; Hitachi, Ltd.; IBM Japan; Infoteria Corporation; NEC Corporation; Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation; Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.; Oracle Corporation Japan; Ricoh Company, Ltd.; SAP Japan Co., Ltd.; Sun Microsystems K.K. and Toshiba Corporation.
Other Japan Special Interest Group activities will include:
· Translation of WS-I technical documents such as the WS-I Basic Profile
· Verification of the WS-I Testing Tools and Sample Applications in Japanese computing environments
· WS-I evangelism at Web services events in Japan
· Recruiting Japanese companies
· Communication with other Web services organizations in Japan
About WS-I
WS-I is an open industry organization committed to promoting consistent and reliable interoperability among Web services across platforms, applications and programming languages. The organization unites a diverse community of Web services companies to provide guidance, recommended practices, and supporting resources for developing interoperable Web services. Since its formation in February 2002, more than 170 companies have joined WS-I. For more information please visit http://www.ws-i.org, or e-mail [email protected].
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