Todd, Based on a number of calls I have recently made to major British companies and organisations, I have to agree with your scepticism about widespread SOA adoption. Amongst major players there is certainly serious interest in the concept of SOA and the idea of implementing it, particularly in ultra-competitive international environments such as the City of London, but as you point out, this is not a rapid or trivial exercise.
Gervas --- In [email protected], Todd Biske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > <<The widespread implementation of service-oriented architectures has > > shown that we have moved past the early adoption phase. > > First comment: What's with all this widespread adoption business > that's going on? I would agree that we have widespread interest and > attempts to adopt, but I think if they surveyed CEOs or other non-IT > personnel about SOA adoption, we probably wouldn't say it's anywhere > near widespread. I've always seen SOA as a minimum of a 5 year > journey, so this talk seems a bit over-hyped to me. > > > The key to a BRMS is the use of a centralized rules > > repository, within which resides the decision logic that applications > > use. > > Second comment: Has anyone actually successfully utilized a BRMS > without killing performance? The way this author talks, every single > clause within an if-then block should be externalized. You can't get > more fine grained than this. I definitely agree that we should > attempt to externalize rules that change frequently, but if you go to > far, you'd better have a good caching architecture for them, because > making a distributed call for every decision point is just scary. > > -tb > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
