Recently held in the "SOA Standardization International Forum", China Electronics Standardization Institute (CESI) Internet standards Laboratory (ISOL) Leader Dr. Ma Nan said, SOA standards system in China has proceeded smoothly, CESI has more than a dozen domestic preliminary planning unit out national standards SOA Master Plan, the current into the refinement and development phase, is expected to take the lead in SOA to establish China's own standard system.
Why is the industry standard so concerned about SOA? As market competition intensifies, enterprises seeking information system can quickly respond to market changes, and traditional, fixed-architecture information systems can not meet the rapidly changing needs, so this new architecture on SOA is adopted. SOA architecture can be more easily used to achieve the integration of enterprise information systems, making interoperability between information systems, eliminating islands of information.
However, as the international standard system is not complete SOA, SOA lack of standard system in China, SOA vendors lack of interoperability between platforms, customers feel at a loss when using SOA architecture makes SOA industry in China still face a continued advance big challenge.
Why create a standard?
Many people may ask: "Why should we create a standard?"
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) Executive Director Laurent Liscia answer is: "To protect the commercial interests of individuals and the public. In information technology, the standard allows the exchange of data to transfer between systems and to innovate."
For the meaning of SOA standardization, OSOA Chinese leader, Primeton explained Chris Cheng, Vice President, SOA SOA standard system is the field of multi-species, multi-level SOA standards consisting of interrelated organic whole. The system of the unified user and business understanding of SOA, SOA project to speed up the standardization and enhanced interoperability between the SOA system capacity is important, it is generally considered in determining the future structure and direction of enterprise IT, SOA-related business and the core element of industrial development.
If all the business models are as different combinations of business processes or services, SOA will not be that difficult to understand. In the traditional economic model, the traditional makers can only comply with the design, procurement, manufacturing and sales business processes; created in the SOA business world, companies will have the opportunity to game the same as playing with blocks to create new business models, they can start purchasing the beginning, to find out what they can buy the lowest cost components, and then plan what you can use these parts and then sell design and manufacturing customers want to buy products.
Standardization of the SOA users, which means, "I can buy my opinion the best, from different vendors of software or hardware, as standard, they can be well compatible with, and better for our use."
Take the financial sector in China, early implementation of the financial industry is one of the industries of information technology, information technology for many years, making the financial industry, there a lot of isolated internal applications, and how to integrate existing applications, thus improving the user experience and improve service quality, as a general challenge to the financial industry at the present stage.
In such cases, SOA has become the financial industry a good choice. A new generation of business as a financial enterprise system is based, SOA to connect different applications within the enterprise can realize the synergy between multiple systems. In the SOA framework, workflow applications are built based service concept, in order to meet business objectives, SOA needs to break the organizational boundaries, definitions and a set of reusable services (features), standardization is particularly important.
In response, Gold Label deputy secretary general of finance in China Li Shuguang, director of the company deeply understands the standard office, "the financial industry, SOA related standards have been imminent." Therefore, the gold standard committee hopes to cooperate with the ISOL, based on SOA the technical work of national standards, the establishment of the financial industry SOA standards system.
Why the slow standardization process?
Who may be the world platform, which is recognized short SOA vendors. In this case, all manufacturers are pushing their own SOA standards.
From IBM Websphere to BEA's Weblogic, and then to SAP's NetWeaver, every manufacturer make every effort to promote their platform, individual claimed to have advantages in technology. Therefore, overall, international and foreign SOA standards are chaotic.
At the international level, the field of information technology, unified international standard ISO / IEC JTC1 (International Organization for Standardization / International Electrotechnical Commission's first joint working group with members mainly from national member bodies) responsible for the development and dissemination. In the SOA area, JTC1 standardization work has not yet officially launched, the relevant working bodies WSSG (Web Services Research Working Group) was established four years ago, mainly for Web Services standards to sort out.
And now actively promoting the development of SOA-related standards, mainly the World Wide Web Consortium (or W3C), Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) and Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) and other associations, and IBM, Microsoft, BEA and other multinational companies. But these norms and standards for various standardized only in the formation of associations or enterprises preliminary system, and different organizations, norms and standards issued duplicate or even conflict between the existence of the phenomenon. Therefore, the international standard system of unified SOA can not shape a short time.
In the country, SOA development of standardization work and the progress of the international SOA inextricably linked. China Electronics Standardization Institute, Laboratory of the Internet standards group responsible for promoting cooperation in the field of human and head of SOA, said Yuan Yuan, China's principle of SOA building standards system is a positive SOA adoption of international standards, then the Chinese-based application requirements, international standards to cut, to establish standard system in line with China's national conditions and standards-based authentication mechanisms.
Some people questioned whether "foreign non-uniform system of SOA standards, will not affect the formulation of China's SOA standard system?" In this regard, Yuan Yuan pointed out that "a large number of international standards, in the supporting technology, we will conduct some filter, while the domestic front, we will proceed from large industry, through the analysis of the various industries SOA status of implementation of truly user's perspective to its Informationalized building for analysis, interpretation and recommendations for follow-up SOA Biaozhuntiji various industries in China provides the basis for the establishment. "
In the process of standardization of our SOA, ISOL has 17 units at home and abroad to establish a strategic partnership, including Changfeng Alliance Logistic Institute, Beihang University, Fudan University, and Primeton, East Pass, the soft international, wave, Rui Yi special, Shanghai Baosight Software, Kingdee Middleware, Digital China, Yan Huang PCC, Worksoft, Microsoft, IBM, SUN and other vendors, these companies are divided into middleware vendors, integrators, software outsourcing vendors three categories.
Currently, the 17 coordinated by the ISOL units, common on the Chinese standard system for the overall SOA planning, development of demonstration and refinement. China's SOA standards system is being formed.