<<Asked if lack of standards could cause CIOs to wait on the SOA sidelines until the vendors resolve their differences, Gilpin said: "I have seen a few people who are highly knowledgeable express this concern, but I don't think it's on the radar screen for the typical CIO or other senior buyer. The concern is valid, but a bit esoteric for all but the most advanced in SOA. And even then (where the concern is expressed), it impacts the buying of products like ESBs more than the overall SOA program, which is more about practices and processes than just products."
As Gilpin surveys the battlefield in his report on the SOA standards war, there are two competing camps. In what might be called the Java camp, there is Java Business Integration (JBI), which is in Java Community Process (JCP). As defined in JSR 208 it is a standard for composing service containers into composite applications. Gilpin calls this standard "Java-centric." Service Component Architecture (SCA) with Service Data Objects (SDOs) are proposed standards, which, in Gilpin's view, take a broader approach to the composition problem by aiming to work with multiple languages on multiple platforms. Proposed in November 2005, SCA/SDO has yet to make it into a standards body, although Gilpin sees a possibility of it eventually emerging as a de facto standard. Which vendors are backing which standards is a little complex and is perhaps making the picture more than a little confusing. Also, despite some vendor rhetoric, Gilpin does not view the standards as necessarily competing since JBI has a more limited scope and might eventually fit into it as a Java implementation of a larger standard. "A number of vendors have voiced support for one or both standards," Gilpin wrote in his report. "Today, JBI is more strongly advocated by Sun Microsystems and TIBCO Software. SCA and SDO are most strongly advocated by BEA Systems and IBM. Fiorano Software, IONA Technologies, PolarLake and Software AG plan increased support for JBI. IONA, Oracle, SAP, Siebel Systems, and Sybase have all endorsed the SCA and SDO proposal. Other vendors also participated in the development of the JBI specification, but have not yet announced product support." Gilpin cautions that for all the big names in the SCA/SDO camp, Forrester finds the vendor support still somewhat tepid.>> You can read about these pronouncements at: <http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1179519,00.html?track=NL-110&ad=548658> Gervas Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
