Soa Roadmap

SOA is about loosely coupled systems, message based communication and business process orchestration - Statement taken from MicrosoftWay camp

Would like a summary quotation from JavaPlatform and EnterpriseServiceBus vendors besides BigBlue. --DavidLiu request

See ServiceOrientedArchitecture for now.

A worthwhile undertaking due to prevalence of SOA related matters impacting all IT application areas

Current ServiceOrientedArchitecture and related pages are too congested. -- dl

I do not have energy to tackle this single handedly. But I suggest these aspects to start:

SoaBasics? - description and related terminology. See WhatIsSoa and WhyUseServiceOrientedArchitecture for now
SoaBusinssValue? - ROI and implementation strategies
SoaMessagingAspects? - technical nuts and bolts
SoaAndXml? - Soa without XML, and XML messaging that is not SOA compliant
SoaImplementationsAndWebServices - how they are related, Soa without web services, web services that are not SOA compliant, etc
SoaAndLegacyApplications? - considerations for developers
SoaSecurity? - See XmlSecurityAspects for now

Resources

successful web services http://workingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4800&t=technology

MS Jan04 SOA basics http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnmaj/html/aj1soa.asp

Computerworld myths of Web Services http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2004/0,4814,95053,00.html

SOA missing pieces http://cio.co.nz/cio.nsf/0/D368C5F360A61F65CC256F0D007E70AD?OpenDocument

WindowsCommunicationFoundation and SoaIsPeace tenets by DonBox http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/01/Indigo/default.aspx

SoaIsPeace. Iff JavaAndDotNet work together then there will be less WebServicesInteroperabilityConcerns

Most critical technological problem identified in late 2005 lies with the domain of SoaSystemsManagement.

BigBlue and MicroSoft both participates at WebServicesInteroperabilityOrganization where there have been significant progress in areas like WebServicesSecurity. However at the product level even the venerable WebServicesDescriptionLanguage level interoperability between vendors is said to be broken (note WS-I Basic Profile was adopted two years ago in mid 03 that aimed to resolve ambiguities in the WSDL). -- Source: industry report on JavaOne meeting in mid 2005.

One WikiReader of SOA material at C2 speculates in late 2005

Interoperability can become a casualty of the emerging big battle for MiddleWare between the giants
We need ExtremeOrchestration between major players, and possibly an industry wide solution cannot exclude interoperability with JavaBusinessIntegration based solutions.