How many standards does service-oriented architecture (SOA) need? Are there standards SOA could live without? What's working in SOA development and what's not? In the second part of this interview with Michael Meehan, Paul Fremantle, co-founder and vice president of WSO2 Inc., takes a coder's eye view of SOA.

For part 1 of this interview, see here. [1]

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_gci1286599,00.html [2]