Re: [service-orientated-architecture] John on Gartner, AJAX & Assorted TLAs

[Keith Harrison-Broninski]

Hitoshi Ozawa wrote: It's on selecting the right tools AND developing guidelines on using these tools that's important. As you've stated, giving developers just a tool wouldn't improve the situation. Instead of giving developers just Java to work with, give them also a set of patterns and a guideline on creating classes using these patterns. Make sure they are using the patterns and following the guideline. +1.  My experience is that without this sort of guidance, a development project will fail - if not on release 1, then at some time in the not too distant future. And OO techniques certainly give you a lot more scope for pattern application than procedural code, so I would always recommend an OO-based approach. In fact, I cannot see any justification for not using OO in a software development project, SOA or otherwise.   You can always write procedural code inside an object if you wish (in fact, you can simulate object-orientation using a procedural language too - anyone else here remember Objective-C? - but that's by the by).  So why not use design techniques that offer more to the power user?  You are in no way obliged to take full advantage of them, if for some reason you happen to prefer pre-1967 coding styles. -- All the best Keith http://keith.harrison-broninski.info __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Computer software program Computer software spy Computer job Database software Discount computer software YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "service-orientated-architecture" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___