Levy: Workspace is the role-based set of tooling. SOA 360 is the governing approach. MSA is the underlying architecture. And those three together are all in support of the SOA lifecycle.

InfoWorld: So with WorkSpace 360 and the WorkSpace Central, what's the difference?

Levy: WorkSpace Central is central to WorkSpace 360. All of the four components of WorkSpace, for business analysts, for architects, for developer, for IT, will all store and read the artifacts from the same WorkSpace Central. It's kind of the hub.

InfoWorld: Does BEA really think this simplifies things? It seems pretty complex.

Levy: I'm not sure I agree. Again, I think the issue we always faced in the lifecycle is that each one of the pieces was done, but done in a separate manner. Business people dealt with business issues with one set of tools, and architects dealt with another set of tools, and developers dealt with another. We believe that in order to make SOA simple, we have to put all of them in that cycle, and what connects that cycle is WorkSpace. You sort of think of reusability as the work before you.