What’s interesting is that this show has morphed into more of a SOA conference than a Java conference, but I think that’s a good thing. If you can believe it Java is more than 10 years old, and those that program in Java and the Java standards were really one of the first enabling technologies for SOA, after Corba that is. But, we’re not suppose to mention Corba these days.

I’m finding that most Web services, new ones at least, are written in Java and Java developers lead the game in terms of service design and implementation. Moreover, as we create new SOA and Web Service standards we can look towards the Java standards as a basis of understanding as well as how well specific notion work, such as transactions, inter process communications, and even service-oriented capabilities.

You have to look at the problems that have already been solved before you attempt to create solutions for problems that are really old. Make sense? The Java guys get it. I wonder if they will be serving coffee.