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SOA Link Formed To Increase Interoperability in SOA Products

JBoss, Infravio and AmberPoint have joined forces with other several other vendors to achieve a mutual goal ? making their computers work together. This is an important goal because disparate products can hinder business performance if they cannot interoperate. The companies created a Service Oriented Architecture Link so their SOA products could interoperate together.

Participants will jointly develop integration at the data, control and user interface to allow products for SOA governance to interoperate. Governance provides some authority over the messages, services and transactions that traverse the SOA. Without some type of management, Web services, and by extension SOAs, could be subject to multiple failure points and collapsing business transactions. Software developed or adjusted under the aegis of SOA Link could include policy repositories and authoring systems, run-time enforcement systems, or business process utilities. According to a statement, SOA Link members may publish services and associated policy to a system of record and be alerted to changes when they happen.

Other founders of SOA Link include Composite Software, Forum Systems, Intalio, IONA, Layer 7 Technologies, LogicBlaze, NetIQ, ParaSoft, Reactivity, SOA Software, SymphonySoft, webMethods and WSO2. Of note, the group does not include any of the heavyweights that set Web services standards, including IBM, Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, Microsoft and Oracle. Miko Matsumura, vice president of marketing for Infravio, said these large vendors are less concerned with actively supporting interoperability with the pure-play vendors these days.