To me the message sounds more like "Big SOA" is dead - i.e. those high-priced SOA software packages complete with huge services contracts that some vendors have been promoting. Not SOA itself.
Regarding the Web, I think most innovation in distributed computing is happening there now, but traditional systems aren't going away any time soon. The cost of rearchitecting everything to REST is just too high to make it a practical suggestion. I would also like to put in another plug for the OSGi Framework here, since it is SOA based and is gaining traction, not losing ground. Eric ________________________________ From: mikomatsumura <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:22:29 PM Subject: [service-orientated-architecture] Re: SOA is Dead It's certainly one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is that it's alive and well in 2009. I think as an all-singing all-dancing transcendental architecture it's certainly going to experience a significant impact as IT begins to realize it's new year's resolution to become more "fit". But it remains the case that the need to organize and abstract capability for combinatoric reuse and to overcome heterogeneous legacy still remains a large and challenging sore spot to agility in the enterprise. Whatever the efforts to address this challenge are called, the winners of that game will do better than the losers. My 2 bits, Miko --- In service-orientated- architecture@ yahoogroups. com, "Anne Thomas Manes" <atma...@... > wrote: > > This post should generate a bit of discussion: > > http://apsblog. burtongroup. com/2009/ 01/soa-is- dead-long- live-services. html > > Anne >
