The proposed architecture of the Hungarian e-
Government Framework, mandating the functional cooperation
of independent organizations, puts special emphasis
on interoperability. WS-* standards have been created to
reach uniformity and interoperability in the common
middleware tasks for web services such as security, reliable
messaging and transactions. These standards, however, while
existing for some time, have implementations slightly different
in quality. In order to assess implementations, thorough tests
should be performed, and relevant test cases ought to be
accepted. For selecting mature SOA products for e-
Government application, a methodology of such an assessment
is needed. We have defined a flexible and extensible test bed
and a set of test cases for SOA products considering three
aspects: compliance with standards, interoperability and
development support.
