Interviews

InformationWeek's Fritz Nelson talks to WSO2's Director of Mashup Technologies, Jonathan Marsh at Mashup Camp in Mountainview, CA.

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.

In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Stefan Tilkov talks to Paul Downey, Chief Web Services Architect for BT, about Web services standards, Paul's work in the XML Databinding working group, WS-* vs. REST, and cool stuff BT offers to developers.

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.

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.

In this interview hosted on InfoQ, Paul Fremantle, WSO2 co-founder co-chair of the OASIS committee that standardized WS-Reliable Messaging, talks to Stefan Tilkov at QCon about the state and relative importance of web services standards, the role of open source software for SOA, his views on the eternal REST debate, and WSO2's business model.

The Apache Sandesha2 project was started to provide a reliability layer for Apache Axis2. Sandesha2 is well on its way past the 1.2 stage and has gathered a faithful user and developer community around it. Chamikara Jayalath, a key contributor to the Sandesha2 project, speaks about the product and the main features of it.

Content from various external sources are integrated and presented creating added value and a whole new experience in Web applications. In this interview, Jonathan Marsh gives an insight into this fascinating concept of Mashup technology.