A Modular Architecture for Secure and Reliable Distributed Communication

Over the past decade various efforts were taken to provide mechanisms to do secure and reliable message exchanges in distributed systems. With the advance of the Internet and concept of SOA much focus and effort were given to realizing this based on Web services. Our goal was to come up with a solution which implements these features in a usable and a modular manner. The implementation was done on top of the Apache Axis2 platform and the result was a framework which facilitates fully secure and reliable Web service message exchange