Yes! The streets with the fast moving traffic represents the WWW! The simple architecture of autonomous cars navigating without centralized control is WOA. I love it!
-- Nick On 11/22/07, JP Morgenthal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is not a surprising. > > CORBA was beyond the reach of so many because of it's power and > complexity, so we backed off. > Knowledge management was beyond the reach of so many because of it's > power and complexity, so we backed off. > SOA is beyond the reach of so many because of it's power and > complexity....well, we can all see where this is going. > > in my opinion, this is a resource issue. To succeed, these > initiatives require availability of knowledgeable resources and in > each case the level of complexity has made it difficult to build > enough momentum for any one of these avenues. > > In each case, we backed off to a more simple approach. In one > conference I used the "rats in the sewer" analogy, which made the > press at the time. I will reiterate it here for the entertainment > value. > > The distributed computing industry is akin to a group of rats in the > sewer. They run through their sewer pipes making connections and > building communities. Eventually, one rat becomes more intelligent > than the other rats and attempts to move up to a higher level where > the food is fresher and more abundant. So, they find their way up a > pipe to ground level only to end up in the middle of the street > swarmed by fast moving cars or people, and in their fear they > retrench back to the sewer where it's nice and safe. > > Every few years our industry comes up with a compelling approach > toward agility and minimizing the efforts to develop and maintain > software-based systems that have tremendous power, but since the > industry cannot deliver enough resources quickly enough we retrench to > our well-known approaches. Can anyone see WOA in this statement? > > JP > __________________________________ > JP Morgenthal > President & CEO > Avorcor, Inc. > 46440 Benedict Drive > Suite 103 > Sterling, VA 20164 > (703) 649-0829 x 101: Office > (703) 554-5301 : Cell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ > > Confidential: The information in this e-mail message (including any > attachments) is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named > above and as such is privileged and confidential. If you are not an > intended recipient of this message or an agent responsible for > delivering it to the intended recipient(s), be hereby notified that > you have received this message in error. Any review, dissemination, > distribution, printing or copying of this message is strictly > prohibited. If you believe you have received this message in error, > please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this > message from your system(s). > > > > > On Nov 22, 2007, at 5:29 AM, ironick wrote: > > > WOA is what SOA should have been...and can still become. > > > > > > > > > > Sent to you by ironick via Google Reader: > > > > > > > > SOA is ovah?! > > > > via Web Oriented Architecture blog by William Rice on 11/9/07 > > > > Is the SOA story over? > > By Wesley in der Maur, William Rice, Ernst Siegert > > > > For years we have been talking about SOA, and some of us have even > > been implementing it. Or at least trying to do so. In practice, SOA > > appears to be failing to deliver on its promises. Why is this? Have > > we all been fooled by a flawed concept? > > > > We don?t think so. > > > > The concept is ok, and when properly implemented a Service Oriented > > Architecture should be able to provide the benefits of cost > > reduction, short time to market, flexibility etc. The problem is not > > with the concept, but with the execution! To successfully implement > > a SOA, organizations need to really go for this ? no holding back. > > To get this kind of commitment, the desire has to come from within > > the business units and must not be another example of ?IT driving > > the business?. Such has been the case with SOA, we might say. > > > > To successfully deliver the concept and promises of SOA, a new kid > > on the block appears to be coming to the rescue. This is the concept > > of WOA ? Web Oriented Architecture. > > > > One definition (from Gartner) of Web Oriented Architecture: an > > architectural style that is a substyle of SOA based on the > > architecture of the WWW with the following additional constraints: > > globally linked, decentralized, and uniform intermediary processing > > of application state via self-describing messages. > > > > A few statements from the blogosphere further explaining the concept > > of WOA: > > - Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) may emerge as a ?lightweight > > version of SOA? - Gartner?s Nick Gall > > - Dion Hinchcliffe?s WOA vision: ?the SOA with reach? > > - Pragmatic Service-Oriented Architecture: Introducing the WOA/ > > Client (Architecture Journal) > > > > Examples are to be seen everywhere. More and more companies are > > beginning to provide (sell) and integrate web services as offered > > over the internet in to their applications. Internet applications, > > used primarily for customer interaction at the moment, but also > > supporting internal business functions, such as Salesforce.com does > > for CRM processes. > > Other examples from our own experience are large insurance companies > > integrating a State-provided vehicle information service in their > > car insurance web applications and a large publishing company > > delivering functionality with integrated content as services for > > customers to integrate in their own portals. > > > > These examples show us the cost benefits of Web Oriented > > Architecture ? designing by ?mashing up? ? and the fact that it > > delivers new sources of income for companies. > > > > So, WOA is positioned as a subset of SOA, a ?lightweight? version. > > Lightweight because one makes use of what is already ?out there?: > > the architecture of the World Wide Web. Technology is proven, known > > and used by everyone. This means low risk, high interoperability and > > quick and easy to implement. And, most importantly, the business is > > acquainted with it. They already have been using it in everyday for > > many years now. So why not use it for the enterprise? > > > > Conclusion: with WOA paving the way by quickly showing successes and > > expanding the reach, the SOA concept will prove valid and its value. > > WOA is what SOA should have been. > > > > Please let us know what you think by commenting on this post. > > > > > > > > > > Things you can do from here: > > > > Subscribe to Web Oriented Architecture blog using Google Reader > > Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your > > favorite sites > > > > > > > > > > -- Nick Gall Phone: +1.781.608.5871 AOL IM: Nicholas Gall Yahoo IM: nick_gall_1117 MSN IM: (same as email) Google Talk: (same as email) Email: nick.gall AT-SIGN gmail DOT com Weblog: http://ironick.typepad.com/ironick/ Furl: http://www.furl.net/members/ngall
