For this term to have meaning one would have to ask "Compliant according to what defined standard or specification?". If I assert that a Web Service is compliant with WS-I Basic Profile 1.0, that assertion can be tested either manually by reviewing its characteristics against the published rules or in an automated fashion using one or more tools. In short, my compliance claim could be verified.
This vendor's claim of "SOA compliance" can neither be proved nor disproved in absence of some finite set of compliance tests or at least a widely agreed upon specific definition. Their claim is like claiming "object orientation compliant" or "distributed computing compliant" or "client server compliant". It is a marketing construct and useless for any real evaluation of their product. Thanks, Mark _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Teresa Jones Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [service-orientated-architecture] SOA-compliant I'm currently looking at a CRM product that the vendor claims is 'SOA-compliant' yet it is also claimed to be an n-tier architecture. A quick search on the concept of SOA-compliance brought up this article:- http://blogs. <http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/engineering/archives/my-soa-compliant-toaste r-and-cell-phone-7362> ittoolbox.com/eai/engineering/archives/my-soa-compliant-toaster-and-cell-pho ne-7362 which was quite fun! I suspect that the CRM vendor concerned actually means that you can integrate with it using web services.... Question for the group - can an application be regarded as SOA-compliant? Or is that rather a meaningless phrase? thanks Teresa
