John C Hardin is product manager, Sun B2B Platforms. He has spent the last 12 years designing strategy and delivering Web applications and B2B ecosystems for both large and small companies. He served as chief architect of eBusiness for General Motors, and has led an OASIS SOA Technical Committee. In his role at Sun Microsystems, his focus is to ensure that the Sun B2B Suite leads the market in ease of use, scalability, and features.
SOA! B2B! ASAP! There's a building boom underway in Service Oriented
Architectures (SOAs) and business-to-business (B2B) integration, and
everybody's rushing to get in on it. After all, integrating application
assets and business processes is no longer just an option; it's a necessity.
You've got a lot to gain if you do it, and plenty to lose if you don't. So
you better get onboard, and fast. Right?
Well, yes and no. Yes, it's urgent. And no, you shouldn't rush it.
No one could blame you for wanting to plunge right in and get something -
anything! - up and running. But when it comes to building a really solid
infrastructure for B2B integration in an SOA, planning is everything. You're
doing something that's fundamentally different from the way you've always
done things ... (more)
John C Hardin is product manager, Sun B2B Platforms. He has spent the last 12 years designing strategy and delivering Web applications and B2B ecosystems for both large and small companies. He served as chief architect of eBusiness for General Motors, and has led an OASIS SOA Technical Committee. In his role at Sun Microsystems, his focus is to ensure that the Sun B2B Suite leads the market in ease of use, scalability, and features.
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