Which SOA architecture is most appropriate for a Java application?
- by Robert Greiner
I am currently working on a pretty large Java 6 application where we are looking to split some of our functionality out into a service oriented architecture.
It seems that the primary SOA framework for the application space is OSGi and I have been looking into Felix and Knopplerfish but I wanted to make sure that this isn't my only option.
Does it make sense to use an actual web service protocol for our application like SOAP, even though we are not building a web app? Is this even acceptable?
Have any of you used an implementation of OSGi (Felix, etc.) with your desktop application? if so, how did it go? Do you know of anything better?
We're all pretty new to SOA here so any help would be greatly appreciated.