Nick, My concern is that WOA seems to focus on application architecture, where SOA has the opportunity to bring advances in enterprise architecture at the portfolio level.
You may not fully agree with my comparison: http://schneider.blogspot.com/2008/04/soa-and-woa-comparison.html It's your baby - not mine, so don't let me put words in your mouth. Jeff --- In [email protected], "Nick Gall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Michael Poulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Setting WOA or Web Services as a "substyle of SOA" has two troubling aspects: > > 1) SOA is still taken as a technology (otherwise Nick Gall mixes apples and oranges), we it is not > > I think SOA is an architecture (or more precisely, an architectural > style). Hence the "A" in SOA. It is an architecture for IT-enabled > business processes; hence it is an architecture for a > technology/process hybrid. > > > 2) communication models - Web Services/WS*-, REST, MOM/Event- Driven - cannot be architectural principles, its are just communication models; depending on the task one of them might be more preferable than others.
