Good news for WS_SECURITY. Sun switches gears on security. Microsoft, IBM and VeriSign submit a security specification for Web services to an industry standards body, a move that has won the backing of an unlikely supporter: Sun. [CNET News.com] [Sam Gentile’s Radio Weblog]

This is great news.  I’m still skeptical about Sun’s commitment to playing with everyone else in the web services space, but this news is the most promising thing I’ve seen from them yet.