Paul Fremantle on the open source ESB and REST-based SOA

What does the future hold for the open source enterprise service bus (ESB)? Will there be a place for closed source ESBs or some hybrid approach? In the first part of this interview with Rich Seeley, Paul Fremantle, co-founder and vice president of WSO2 Inc., he discusses these issues as well as the Apache Synapse open source ESB, which is the core of the WSO2 ESB product.

Date: Thu, 3rd Jan, 2008
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Paul Fremantle
CTO & Co Founder
WSO2

For part 2 of this interview, see here.

Paul Fremantle co-founded WSO2 after 9 years at IBM where he created the Web Services Gateway, and led the team that developed and shipped it as part of WebSphere Application Server. Paul also co-created the Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF), was co-lead of JSR 110: Java APIs for WSDL, which produced WSDL4J, and co-chaired the OASIS Web Services Reliable eXchange Technical Committee.

Interview: http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid26_gci1286466,00.html

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