Mark Young is Vice President of Kamiak Corporation, the publisher of Omniopera WS, a WSDL and XML schema editor. He is an expert in XML schema and wsdl, and has written object oriented libraries to model them. Mr. Young wrote the company’s tutorials on how to develop web services, and has explored starting either with code or with WSDL. He has 20 years of software development experience, has been a software team leader for many years, and has developed software for applications from telephony to sales automation. Mr. Young holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.
XML signatures apply digital signatures to XML documents. Digital signatures
let parties that exchange data ensure the identity of the sender and the
integrity of the data. This last item is a benefit that physical signatures
can't provide.
Digital signatures don't have the legal status that physical signatures have,
at least not yet. Over the last few years this has been changing, as the
federal government and many state governments have moved to accept digital
signatures as legally binding for some applications, where they identify the
sender and provide nonrepudiation (the signer can't deny ever having signed).
Since Web services that use SOAP exchange XML documents, they can include XML
signatures. Web service developers who produce Web services with XML
signatures will be able to realize the benefits of those signatures, and may
be able to use them in place of... (more)
Mark Young is Vice President of Kamiak Corporation, the publisher of Omniopera WS, a WSDL and XML schema editor. He is an expert in XML schema and wsdl, and has written object oriented libraries to model them. Mr. Young wrote the company’s tutorials on how to develop web services, and has explored starting either with code or with WSDL. He has 20 years of software development experience, has been a software team leader for many years, and has developed software for applications from telephony to sales automation. Mr. Young holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.
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