Q&A: Bob Sutor, IBM's director of Websphere infrastructure, tells about his company's Web services plan, pushes SOA technology and urges Sun to bring Java out in the open.

Most Java companies--such as IBM, Oracle, SilverStream, and now Sun--have been releasing their own Web services toolkits that offer differing guidelines to build Web services using Java.

Amazon Web Services has long offered an SDK to make it easier to access its web services from Java. Now it has another lure for Java programmers: James Gosling, the father of Java.