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Breaking News - General:
Broad Industry Support Announced For SOA Blueprints
The Middleware Company announced broad industry support for a new SOA
Blueprints release available immediately. SOA Blueprints is a set of best
practices for developing applications that use service-oriented architecture
(SOA). SOA includes principles and practices for sharing, reusing and
orchestrating business logic represented as services or components. SOA
Blueprints contains an open specification, third-party expert validation and
implementations using multiple technologies. The release is the second public
draft, available for review at www.SOABlueprints.com.
SOA Blueprints has received support from BEA, HP, Iona, Microsoft, Oracle,
Rogue Wave Software, Sun Microsystems, The Middleware Company, VERITAS
Software and several other companies, that may engage in three ways:
1. By providing a best practice implementation of the SOA Blueprints
specification (BEA Systems, Iona, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, The
Middleware Company, Pramati, Diamelle Technologies, Rogue Wave Software).
2. By leading the formulation of best practices not currently described by SOA
Blueprints (Borland, HP, VERITAS Software, 7irene, E2E Consulting, MindReef,
PushToTest).
3. By contributing to the expert group or through ecosystem development
(Arjuna Technologies, GrandCentral Communications, Truelink, WestGlobal,
Xede).
"The momentum and support around SOA Blueprints has exceeded our
expectations," said Salil Deshpande, CEO of The Middleware Company, a research
and media company. "Since its launch in May there have been more than 30,000
downloads and nine commitments to build comparable implementations using
various technologies such as J2EE, .NET and open source. This effort includes
individuals, consulting companies and large software vendors working non-
politically together to achieve a common goal. We continue to be excited by
the interest and progress we are seeing."
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