J2EE Seen In Oracle's SOA 2.0 Vision

A combination of Java Enterprise Edition 5, aka J2EE, and Oracle's Project Fusion middleware components will build the service-oriented architecture (SOA) of Oracle's future. It's either a brilliant idea or it isn't. Detractors see no difference between so-called 1.0 and 2.0 versions of SOA. Advocates like Oracle believe the difference is quite noticeable. During the JavaOne Conference, Oracle executive Thomas Kurian, Senior VP for server technologies, report by Search Web Services showed how J2EE will figure in the SOA 2.0 world. Kurian contended that developers would adopt the latest version of J2EE, which will make it easier for them to build interfaces for underlying applications. "We see a new application development framework emerging," he said at the conference. Interfaces for those applications would be constructed using Java Server Faces technology. The Fusion and J2EE framework behind SOA 2.0 would be an event-driven architecture instead of the conventional client/server methods employed in the present implementations of SOA. Some don't see the big deal. Joe McKendrick of ZDNet Oracle seems to be hedging its bets too. InfoWorld Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.