Now that we're all in agreement, who will carry the message back to
the pathetic marketing staffs within these vendors?
:-)
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On Jun 27, 2007, at 1:04 PM, Mark D. Carlson wrote:
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.ittoolbox.com/eai/engineering/archives/my-soa-
compliant-toaster-and-cell-phone-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
