Service Station: Migrating to WSE 3.0 -- MSDN Magazine, April 2006

Service Station: Migrating to WSE 3.0 -- MSDN Magazine, April 2006: "Major Changes in WSE 3.0

MSDN� recently published an article entitled 'What's New in WSE 3.0,' written by Mark Fussell, Lead Program Manager on the WSE team. This article summarizes the major changes and improvements to the product since WSE 2.0, including integration with the .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio� 2005, simplified security through a new-and-improved policy architecture, and support for sending large amounts of data with Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM). Additional changes include improved session management (via WS-SecureConversation), support for hosting ASMX services outside of IIS, and support for the latest WS-* specifications.
Although the WSE team tried hard to ensure backward compatibility, some of these changes affect the core programming model that you must address to update existing WSE 2.0 solutions.
The good news is, once you've migrated to WSE 3.0, you'll have more communications options. WSE 3.0 supports the latest WS-* specifications�the same ones supported by Windows� Communication Foundation (WCF)�making WSE 3.0 and WCF wire-compatible. This means WCF clients can interoperate with WSE 3.0 services and vice versa, removing the need for continued migration."