Part one covered the current status of Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Objects (SDO) as the specifications move toward maturity and inclusion in a standards process in the coming year.
WS-Policy is the missing link in SOA, according Toufic Boubez, CTO for Layer 7 Technologies Inc., and the good news is that by the end of 2007 it may not be missing anymore.
Boubez, who is one of the editors working to move WS-Policy through the adoption procedures in W3C, says he has never seen a standards body process work more effectively and efficiently. The members of the W3C working group are driven to complete their task as soon as possible because they share a belief that the policy standard is the missing link in SOA, he said.
