Hi,

I've been looking into that SOA stuff since SOA could be something to
integrate various systems in my company with. So far I could only find
SOA systems that are based on web services. I earlier had to work with
web services and I'm not happy with them as performance is really poor
and data throughout very low.

I'm anyway only looking for ways to integrate different Java
application, so there is no need for web services. Nevertheless, I
find the idea of SOA interesting. I then had a look into the
enterprise service bus. The ESB systems I looked at seemed more to be
about messaging and EAI. There was no talk about service-orientation.

So, that's the story so far. What I'm looking for now is a way to
apply a service-oriented approach without the overkill of web
services. Is there something out that that does just that or could be
tweaked to do what I want?

Thanx for any hints,
Oliver