Rob: Strong governance is what will make SOA succeed ... frankly, do you want each project each defining redundant services and the ones who come along later scratch their heads to figure out which is the right one?
- Adwait -- Adwait Ullal e: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] w: http://www.adwait.com l: http://www.linkedin.com/in/adwait j: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/AdwaitsDotNetJobs On 10/1/07, Rob Eamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMO, the downfall of SOA is its unrelenting focus on a singular > characteristic, service-orientation. There are many other aspects > that are needed to make any solution work. Object-oriented, document- > oriented, event-driven, RESTful, etc. are all additional > characteristics that can be present and must be addressed in some way. > > Also contributing, IMO, is the over-emphasis on governance, > registries, management, et. al. These are important, to be sure, but > the emphasis on them (which at times seems to be at the expense of > creating a working solution in the first place) can be off-putting. > Governance in particular will raise a red flag with any business > project manager. Who doesn't love having to go through a review and > approval process, especially when said review can only have a > negative impact on the immediate project and almost always zero > positive value? > > The governance, registry, management, etc. items have been issues > longer than SOA has been around. EAI, OO, RAD, XP, and all of the > previous "failed" attempts at providing business flexibility needed > these things too. And like them, SOA will succeed in some cases, and > fail to achieve any traction in others, despite best efforts at > governance. > > I think ZapThink contributes to the demise with the seemingly endless > articles that have a general theme of "you're doing it wrong." > > SOA as a term needs to disappear, with service-orientation folded > into the broader notion of EA. > > There isn't even agreement within this forum on a definition of SOA. > Little wonder that there is confusion and angst. > > -Rob > > >
