Cisco announced its SONA (Service Oriented Network Architecture) www.cisco.com/application/pdf/en/us/ guest/netsol/ns477/c643/cdccont_0900aecd8039b324.pdf.
When implemented correctly, a SONA like architecture will allow an administrator to login into a network services router and run "show http peers" which will list all the web services that are exposed using http binding in the network. Replace "http" with your favorite protocol and you should be able to see web services exposed on your favorite binding. If you type "show some_peer_webservice", you should be able to see its various bindings, its "EPR", its grouping and almost everything you get from WSDL of the service (without the annoying angle brackets).
Moving web services network management away from developers into the hands of operations personnel is the true promise of SOA and SONA delivers on that promise better than any application server centric (open or otherwise) service bus.
posted by Vikas Deolaliker at 9:59 AM on Dec 16, 2005
"Cisco's SONA"
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