Oracle confirmed that is thinking about a SOA 2.0 strategy that will combine the web services approach with an event-driven architecture that will produce the next generation of SOA applications and environments.

Company VP Steve Harris sad that SOA 2.0 is the term the company is using to describe this approach. The company is working with its Fusion middleware components to develop the SOA 2.0 strategy, which will incorporate J2EE (or more accurately, Java EE 5). Oracle was present at the recent JavaOne Conference in San Francisco to outline this vision and also tout its emerging AJAX strategy.

With AJAX, Oracle has committed to Java Server Faces (JSF), as Sun recommends people do, but has not yet gone with the open source NetBeans community, apparently preferring to stick with its JDeveloper and the Eclipse platform. Oracle's Chief Architect Ted Farrell (pictured above) said that the company has a lot of customers using Eclipse, although he also noted that Oracle "would probably address (NetBeans) as well" if there was a new customer push for it.

Oracle is also a member of the Open Ajax Alliance, which held meetings during JavaOne to discuss interoperability and related issues. Farrell was recently interviewed by SYS-CON regarding Oracle's Open Ajax participation.