Some consider the Synapse project an SOA platform itself, which can be confusing, said Jason Bloomberg, a senior analyst with research firm ZapThink. Part of the problem, he said, is there’s no clear definition of what makes an SOA platform.

“JEMS has a very different value proposition from Synapse, so it doesn’t make much sense to use the same term for both,” he said. “JEMS is a coordinated collection of components, including Tomcat, Hibernate, Eclipse, jBPM, JBoss Portal and others that provide a broad set of distributed computing capabilities.

“Add a registry/repository, distributed intermediaries, and run-time management and you’d have much of the infrastructure you’d need for a successful SOA implementation.”

Synapse might complement JEMS more than it competes with it, Bloomberg added, because it has a narrower focus on distributed intermediaries.

Read more at: InternetNews