The 2008 edition of Saltmarch Media’s annual Great Indian Developer Summit [1], centered around the theme of "Recipes for Enterprise Productivity", featured a blockbuster convergence of three on-the-radar co-located conferences that no entity in the "Developer ecosystem" can ignore in their quest for success at work and in their careers – Bleeding-edge .NET, Rich Web and Daring Java. Sanjaya Karunasena presented a talk titled "Web Services Development in Java without JEE" at the summit.

Web Services as the most popular implementation technology choice for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA is a widely used architectural style in enterprise application development. Reliability, security, performance and fault-tolerance are some of the key non-functional requirements in enterprise application development. Typically these non-functional requirements should be served by the container or the application server infrastructure which host the services.

The traditional approach taken by the JEE application servers is to have a wrapper around their existing infrastructure to support Web services. Is this the right approach? Why can't we have services as primary citizens in our SOA design? Why can't we have a pure Web services container and the relevant application server infrastructure? These were some of the topics that were discussed.

Sanjaya Karunasena is an Enterprise Architect with over 10 years of industry experience specializing in C/C++, Java and Microsoft Technologies. At WSO2 while contributing to a variety of projects, he helps establish overall engineering processes and is the Director of Services. Previously, Sanjaya led a 300+ engineering team, developing many enterprise solutions, providing strategic direction to improve software engineering productivity and software quality.