95-843 Group Project  Paper Template                      

The paper will be between six and eight pages in length. It will be combined
into one large document and it will be made available on the course web
site. So, it is very important that you site all sources in endnotes. Do not use
footnotes.

The title of the final document is: 

SOA 2011: A Snapshot of Some Existing Tools

Your paper should not make a case for the product or platform. You are not
in the role of an advocate. Instead, the paper should be written from an 
objective (scientific) point of view. Think of yourself as one who is trying 
to evaluate the product and not as a person trying to convince others to 
adopt it.

Each team should begin by developing an outline. Each team member will
be responsible for sections of the outline. The outline that you develop will
be included as the contents of the final course document. 

Each team member is a contributor to the final document. Your name must
be included on the section(s) that you contributed to. A single section may
have more than one author.

The paper must be written well. Points will be deducted for poor English.
Be sure to use "an SOA" and "an ESB". Please do not use "a SOA" or 
"a ESB".

The following outline may be used as a guide. Feel free to depart from it if you need
to. 

0. Executive summary (one paragraph)
1. History of product including latest release
2. Market position and trajectory
3. Developer tool support (IDE)
4. Management tool support (BAM)
5. Business case studies
     a. Successful use cases
6. Technical Architecture
     a. Rules engine availability
     b. ESB availability and ESB capabilities
     c. Registries
     d. Web Service support
     e. Legacy system migration 
     e. Other
7. Standards support
     a. WS-*
     b. WSI Profiles and Interoperability testing
     c. BPMN and BPEL
     d. Transactions (atomic and compensating)
     e. Security (WSS)
     f. SCA
     g. SDO
     h. SAML
     i. XACML
     j. Industry specific standard support
     k. Metadata management (WS-MetadataExchange, WS-Policy, UDDI)
     l. Other
8. Product support for experimentation and demonstration

     This part of the document will contain a description of
     a successful experimentation or a clear description of 
     the obstacles encountered. Screenshots are encouraged and
     will be used in the appendix. The screenshots should not
     be taken into account in the six to eight page boundary.
     If screenshots are included, be sure to label them and make
     references to them within the text. From within your text,
     you may say "see XYZ in appendix "A".

For the document body, only use plain text. We will combine
the final document into a Word document before placing it on the
course schedule. For screenshots, submit a singe separate Word 
document.

We are assuming that you have no problem with your name being placed 
on a final document on the course schedule. Please see me if that is
of concern.

The teams and team members for July-August 2011 are:

Microsoft Team
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     Sadit Zia Khan
     Zin-Hao Lin
     Hassam	Raja	

IBM Team
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     Vivel Ramesh
     Devang	Shah

Oracle Team
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    Jaime	Rodriguez Lara
    Saad	Farooq