Open Source SOA Implementation

Hardly would there be anybody who hasnt heard or been a part of the SOA hype over the couple of years. It seems as if an entire industry is converging towards this amazing concept of sharing, interoperability and plug-ability. For long software architects for medium and large businesses have always had to go through a nightmare while designing systems that were heterogeneous. Well this is not a blog to present the advantages and disadvantages of SOA, its various pros and cons and the ideas revolving around its concepts.

Neverthless there has been a host of vendors that have leaped to embrace SOA and have created an entire product suite/stack for implementing it. For instance there is BEA with its entire Weblogic and Aqualogic suite, IBM with its Websphere Development Studio, Tibco, WebMethods and a host of other proprietary vendors.

I have however tried to make a presentation on how to implement using open source tools and technologies. Here is a slide that evaluates the various options available for an open source implementation of SOA.

Find it here.