"We have not chosen to go do a direct open-source development model with [Java]. However, we allow anyone to develop compliant implementations," Fowler said.
Fowler also said IBM and Microsoft have been putting forth Web services specifications to the industry without seeking input from other vendors.
"IBM [and Microsoft have] participated in more than a dozen specifications in which nobody participates. They don't go to anybody's standards committees."
IBM and Microsoft in April did submit the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) specification to OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), eight months after announcing the Web services proposal. Fowler said it was disappointing that BPEL was not submitted to W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).
"They did not submit to W3C, in which there was already a working group," looking Web services orchestration, Fowler said. "We think that is just a very poor move on their part."
BPEL and Sun's own Web Services Choreography Interfaces (WSCI) specification are intended to provide automation of back-end interaction of Web services, considered critical for e-business via Web services. WSCI has been submitted to W3C, but BPEL has much greater industry support.
Sun recently joined the BPEL Web services working group at OASIS, known as the WSBPEL technical committee. In joining, Sun is looking for a compromise on the issue, Fowler said.
Asked if WSCI is effectively dead, Fowler said, "I don't think so. Sun and Oracle are working together [on WSCI]. We'll make sure there's something good there."
Sun also is improving its informational Web sites for developers, said Paul Pangaro, senior director of the Voice to the Developer program at Sun.
Sun developer resources are found online at www.sun.com/developers. Sun plans to allow developers to get a wide variety of content through a single portal, featuring content and community areas and subjects such as Web services, Panjaro said.
Content syndication, or sharing of content with other organizations, also is planned.
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