Whitepapers and Related Specifications

CBD/SOA Whitepapers

ROI on commercial off-the-shelf components, ComponentSource
Using SOA & CBD to Build Web Service Applications, IBM Rational
CBD, by Howard Abrams

Specifications

Component Enabled Platform Specifications

J2EE Platform Specification
Sun J2SE Reference page
ECMA and ISO/IEC C# and Common Language Infrastructure Standards
.NET Framework Class Library

Component Specifications

Enterprise JavaBeans Specification
Sun's JavaBean Homepage

Service Oriented Architecture Specifications

Web Services-Interoperability Organization (WS-I)
SOAP Specification
WSDL Specification
W3C Web Services Architecture

Other Specifications

The Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) draft (v2.1)
OMG's MDA Specification