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
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> 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.
> >
> >
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