Via Microsoft Connect

Feb 27, 2009 14:37 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft is making good on a promise involving the availability of the Web Services API specific to Windows 7, for the precursors of the next iteration of the Windows operating system. Windows 7 client and Windows 7 Server (Windows Server 2008 R2) come to the table as early as the Beta stage with the Windows Web Services API, application programming interface, designed to address the needs of native code developers, which only extends the communication capabilities of the operating system. Now, the Beta version of the Web Services API for Windows 7 is also available for previous releases of Windows client and server platforms.

“Windows Web Services API team has just release the Beta version of the API for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. It is available now on the Connect site for Windows Networking. This release contains the same version of the runtime as in Windows 7 Beta,” stated Ari Pernick, Senior Software Design Engineer in Test at Microsoft. “Please try it out and report any installation and runtime issues by submitting the feedback using the WNDP Connect site.”

As you can see from the table on the left, the Beta of Windows Web Services API will play nice even with Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP1. In this manner, Microsoft is gearing up to offer WWSAPI not only as a default component of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but also as a system update for previous releases of the Windows platforms.

“WWSAPI is a native-code implementation of SOAP which provides core network communication functionality by supporting a set of the WS- and .NET- family of protocols. WWSAPI is designed to be used by components/applications which fall into one of the following categories: native code mandate; require minimal dependencies; require minimal startup time; and memory constrained environments,” Microsoft informed.

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