Prasad Yendluri, the principal architect for webMethods' office of the chief technology officer, will continue to serve as the company's representative on the
WS-I board.
Since this revelation, Simon Phipps, Sun's chief technology evangelist, has branded the WS-I as a front for Microsoft and IBM to disseminate their own "political sentiments veiled in openness".
Sutor and Charney's defence for not admitting Sun to the WS-I board: "Sun is not involved enough in web services."
WS-I's Basic Profile is the first set in a body of work the organization says will help ensure interoperability between web services standards that have been implemented by competing vendors.
The WS-I is, meanwhile, also planning a set of test tools and sample applications for Java and Microsoft Corp's C Sharp will be made available in the next few months.