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A novel definition of a SOA platform
Matsumura suspects that an open source UDDI registry is likely in the near future.
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For all the talk of SOA benefits over the past three years, there remains an awful lot of fuzziness around the actual definition of a SOA platform. Seems that no matter who you ask to describe a SOA platform, you get a different answer.
So I put the question to Miko Matsumura, marketing honcho and standards guru at SOA registry maker Infravio. He provided a novel definition of the definition of a SOA platform in the BriefingsDirect podcast we recorded late last week. Miko, the former Java evangelist at Sun Microsystems, says a SOA platform needs to meet the same requirements as a good news story. If you get the who, what, where, when, and how of a service ... well, then you are close to producing a SOA platform, he says.
And the plain descriptors of a baseline UDDI registry don't cut it, which is why SOA registries are quickly evolving into tomorrow's services policy and governance engines. In the podcast, Miko and I also delve into why ESBs, as a subset of a SOA platform, are sprouting open source projects like mushrooms after an autumn rain, but UDDI registries remain commercial. Miko suspects that an open source UDDI/SOA registry is likely in the near future. I wouldn't be surprised if Infravio has something significant to do with that.
So I put the question to Miko Matsumura, marketing honcho and standards guru at SOA registry maker Infravio. He provided a novel definition of the definition of a SOA platform in the BriefingsDirect podcast we recorded late last week. Miko, the former Java evangelist at Sun Microsystems, says a SOA platform needs to meet the same requirements as a good news story. If you get the who, what, where, when, and how of a service ... well, then you are close to producing a SOA platform, he says.
And the plain descriptors of a baseline UDDI registry don't cut it, which is why SOA registries are quickly evolving into tomorrow's services policy and governance engines. In the podcast, Miko and I also delve into why ESBs, as a subset of a SOA platform, are sprouting open source projects like mushrooms after an autumn rain, but UDDI registries remain commercial. Miko suspects that an open source UDDI/SOA registry is likely in the near future. I wouldn't be surprised if Infravio has something significant to do with that.