In this interview, Stefan Tilkov talks to Sanjiva Weerawarana on Web services, REST, standards, open source SOA tooling and scripting languages in Web services. He also expresses the strategy of WSO2 in providing open source middleware.

Sanjiva founded WSO2 after having spent nearly 8 years in IBM Research, where he was one of the founders of the Web services platform. During that time, he co-authored many Web services specifications including WSDL, BPEL4WS, WS-Addressing, WS-RF and WS-Eventing. Sanjiva is currently a member of the W3C Web Service Description Working Group where he is a co-editor of the specification. 

Interview: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/sanjiva-open-source-soa# [1]