Open SOALab is a collection of software and courseware to assist researchers and educators in studying and teaching Services Oriented Architecture systems All components of Open SOALab are available for download free of charge.
Development of Open SOALab has been partially supported by the University of West Florida Foundation under the Nystul Eminent Scholar Endowment		Department of Computer Science University of West Florida Pensacola, Florida, USA

Computer Science researchers and educators working in the field of Services Oriented Architecture face a common problem: the lack of simple, but completely elaborated composite applications that can be used as examples in research studies or in coursework.

The goal of Open SOALab is to provide a living and growning composite application with freely available source code and documentation, consisting of several services that can be downloaded and deployed on one or more nodes. Some student exercises are provided and others can be added. Some initial software tools to aid researchers are also included.

Cloud Computing is a very attractive way of deploying scaleable SOA services. Open SOALab includes a student exercise showing how the composite application may be deployed to a public compute cloud.

We hope to add to Open SOALab as research and educational activities grow at our University and we would welcome suggestions and contributions from sister institutions. Please direct any comments or questions to Norman Wilde.