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1. Welcome Jim could you introduce yourself to the community?
2. Can you explain what the SOA blueprints is all about?
3. What vendors are involved in the initiative?
4. Why do you think SOA blueprints are so important?
5. How have you gone on the experience to real world example that is part of the spec?
6. What is actually specified in the blueprints?
7. What are some of the patterns that have come out of the blueprints implementation?
8. Can you talk us through an example of when a pub sub model was used?
9. How about an example of the orchestration patterns?
10. You mentioned compensating actions, are they hard to keep track of and test?
11. How would a developer work with the cross cutting patterns in SOA?
12. What is BEA's approach to SOA, what solutions you offer developers?
13. Where does Apache Beehive fit into all of this?
14. How does your approach compare to your competitors?
15. As you mentioned right at the beginning there has been a lot of marketing hype around SOA, but why do you think developers should care?
16. What are some of the pitfalls that are you seeing with new teams that are just getting into SOA?
17. Some pet store has been mocked in the community probably because it tries to fit in every design pattern into that one application, which makes it generally not really real world, it this a worry with the SOA blueprints?
18. How you see web services and SOA fitting in together?
19. Do you have any final words on building SOA applications in the future?