Excellent point on the succintness aspect. My concern about most polls is that succinctness tends to make the results of the polls less useful/reliable. "SOA" without any explanation about the definition in the context of the poll can lead to wildly differing opinions. Poll takers that define SOA as web services with a directory may answer quite differently than takers that have a more abstract definition.
A poll in which I'd be quite interested, but would be quite difficult to create I think, is one that gathered information about service scope/granularity, segmenting functionality amongst services, the number and type of interfaces typically created, types of operations provided by the service, etc. More info about services design, less about the technology used to implement and connect those services (for which we seem to have lot of material). Thanks for the vote of confidence, but you give me too much credit. There are folks on the forum that are far more knowledgeable and semantically skilled than I! :-) -Rob --- In [email protected], "Gervas Douglas" <gervas.doug...@...> wrote: > > Rob, > > You are doubtless right, however with polls succintness is more > important than precise semantics :) > > Given that you are highly knowledgeable technically and semantically > precise I would like to invite you to offer us some poll > questions/answers. > > Gervas
