Thursday, February 08, 2007

Building Virtual SOAs

Doug Kaye has written about how he used Amazon web services to build the infrastructure for his application, i.e.
  • elastic compute cloud to run the apps
  • simple storage services to store the content
  • simple queue services to connect the apps.
And talking about building applications, Coghead (which has recently gone into limited beta) lets users define screens which can trigger user defined orchestration processes and data mappings. Just about what every ESB/EAI/SOA tool can do except that this uses a SaaS model.

Using these tools, what stops you defining a "virtual" SOA, in which the Coghead defined UI triggers the orchestration which calls up web services implemented using the Amazon virtual infrastructure?

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