Project Name

SOA Reference Architecture

Project Status

Approved by the SOA Working Group.

Contribution to the Mission

An SOA Reference Architecture will assist information technology professionals to understand and adopt SOA.

Deliverables

One or more non-vendor-specific reference architectures that describe the various characteristics of a reference SOA environment from an architectural perspective. These architectures would be appropriate for use with The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF).

Base Document

The base document for the work is the SOA Reference Architecture input by IBM.

Inputs

Other reference architectures to compare against the base include:

• Infosys Reference Architecture input;
• Input from Applied Technology Solutions;
• Input from Wipro;
• The SOA Alliance Reference Architecture.

The following is useful background material.

• TOGAF 8.1.1
• The OASIS SOA Reference Model.

Working Procedures

The project will start with a base document, and work by developing deltas to it, including deltas derived by comparing the base with other SOA reference architectures.

Project Leaders

Ali Arsanjani and Nikhil Kumar

Project Team

The project team consists of the members of the soa-ref-arch mail list.

The following are project editors: Ali Arsanjani (lead), John Bell, Stuart Boardman, Jorge Diaz, Farhan Malik, and Lynne Thompson.

Project Plan

A timeline for production of deliverables will be developed as an initial activity of the project.