So, heres something very interesting. On TheServerSide.com it says that
"In an effort to establish a common nomenclature for SOA, OASIS has created an SOA Reference Model (RM) technical committee". A group of vendors is also working to create an SOA Blueprints technical committee at OASIS. Formerly created by The Middleware Company, the Blueprints will leverage the RM to define a functional specification that vendors and end users can implement for real world SOA projects."
Microsoft , as part of the Connected Systems stuff have created a reference implementation of the SOA Blueprints. The implementation can be download from MSDN at http://www.microsoft.com/connectedsystems.
According to Greg Leake of MS " It's an interesting implementation in that the SO architecture allows any module to be swapped out for a J2EE module, and the application will still work via the web service architecture used. The point is to show:
1) An end-to-end SOA application built using .NET
2) Using an architecture that allows any module to be constructed in either .NET and/or J2EE with complete interoperability between the two.
Finally, BizTalk is used for the workflow/business process management portion of the SOA Blueprint specification."
It looks very interesting to me personally as I am going to be getting into a project thats very similiar and I am looking forward to picking up some tips and patterns. I have downloaded the application and whitepaper from the MS site and ordered the kit.Its free but you have to pay for shipping and handling. Hope its money well spent.
Check it out.