The Big SOA Grid ™

Architects and developers attempting to design, implement, and maintain a Service Oriented Architecture face a bewildering array of standards and specifications. To make matters worse, these guidelines are managed by several different standards bodies, and sponsored by an ever-changing array of vendors. Finally, they all continually evolve over time, adding extra complexity to the equation.

The Big SOA Grid, developed by Robert Schneider and Chris Riley, is our humble attempt at providing a comprehensive, up-to-date snapshot of all the major standards that you need to be aware of when planning or maintaining your Service Oriented Architecture. You'll find the following helpful details about each major specification:

• A brief summary of the standard
• The category to which the standard belongs, including:

·         Data definition

·         Data transformation & extraction

·         Interoperability

·         Management

·         Messaging

·         Orchestration

·         Policy

·         Registry

·         Security

·         Service description

·         Transactions

• The standards body responsible for the specification
• A link to the standard
• The date of the standard
• Its current revision, along with the next planned revision
• The primary contributing organizations

Since everything is constantly in flux, we'll continually maintain this helpful list at BigSOAGrid.com. If you have any questions or corrections, please contact us at info@bigsoagrid.com. And if you’d like to be notified of updates to the grid, please send an email to subscribe@bigsoagrid.com. Rest assured that your name and email address will not be sold or rented to anyone.

Stay tuned, because in the near future we’ll be adding links to useful tutorials, sharing our opinions on the state of each standard, and providing a comprehensive list of vendors that offer products for every standard.

And now, on to the Big SOA Grid...