Three proposed specifications clustered around IT management of Web services have jumped from the frying pan of standards adoption into the fire of open source implementation, paving the way for a common set of standards for management inside a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
The Apache Software Foundation has moved the three Java-based standards implementations out of the incubation stage into the project stage. The hope for all three, according to Davanum Srinivas, vice president of Apache's Web services project management committee, is to "generate enough code so that these standards are ready to interact with the next generation of Web services platforms."
Judi Cowell, director of software standards at Hewlett-Packard Co., which contributed the original implementations to Apache, said she believes IT management software faces an inevitable change as SOA becomes more prevalent.
