Anne Thomas Manes wrote:
> Gregg,
>
> Sorry, but I'm not following you. While I absolutely agree with the
> points you make below, I'm not sure what they have to do with the
> discussion as to whether services must be based on components. Folks
> have been extremely successful building highly reliable, performant,
> and scalable service-oriented systems using CICS/COBOL and IMS/PLI.
> Therefore I'm with Stefan. I see no reason why service orientation
> needs to be based on either components or objects.
Saying that SOA is not bound to a technology makes no sense. An SOA's software
components are bound to the capabilities of the technologies which create the
implementation. The SOA software system has no more capabilities,
maintainability nor usability with/by other software than the underlying
technologies allow.
If you design an SOA, have all of your business needs identified and supported
by the flow of the software systems (component based, object based or pencil
and
paper based), but then try to implement with a software system that can't
adequately support the system design, the SOA will not meet all of your needs,
or perhaps it will meet none.
Thus, for me, there is a need to say it differently.
"An SOA doesn't have to use particular technologies to be viable. However
certain technologies might make an SOA more viable for a particular
implementation or use than others. So you still need to understand the value
of
each system that is part of your overall SOA and how it enables or inhibits
your
systems performance from each perspective that you might use to measure the
success of your SOA."
Some SOAs work great with just pencil and paper. Some need a computing device,
others need a network. Still others benefit from security (that doesn't
involve
weapons) and even more benefit from the all important common communications
protocol.
Components and objects each have their benefits based on what type of system
you
are implementing or interfacing with.
Sorry if I'm still not being clear enough about my view of the issue.
Gregg Wonderly
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