SOA Reference Architecture

Recently the Open Group, which is an 300 member industry consortia devoted to the establishment of open standards, developed what they term as a SOA Reference Architecture. It’s a white paper that describes a blueprint for creating and/or evaluating a SOA architecture. I highly recommend it, and some of the things it touches upon are:

• Principles and benefits of SOA.
• 9 Conceptual Layers of SOA architecture, such as the role of service components, governance, business processes etc.
• Best practices for integrating middleware such as ESBs.

It’s an excellent document, and well worth reading the 30 or so pages.

Interesting article about the Mozilla Foundation

The NY Times had an interesting article in today’s business section talking about the challenges Mozilla faces against the deep pocketed Google and Microsoft. Mozilla is really an amazing open source success story, and its really because of the large community of users who chip into help (coding, testing, writing extensions etc).

Book review and interview from InfoQ

InfoQ did a book review of “Open Source SOA” and asked some very good questions during an interview I had with them. See: http://www.infoq.com/articles/open-source-soa-davis.