A couple months ago I talked (in this Forum) that SOA, as a term, better be changed because of its ambiguous tail of misunderstanding and misuse. However, service orientation is the key and the King of the business. Thus, it must stay with us and be used as the technology driver, IMHO.
Sometimes, I use expression such as service-oriented solution (SOS). In current crisis, it is SOS indeed. For a while, I am trying to avoid using word 'SOA' and use 'SO' instead. SO assumes market - consumers and providers. However, consumers in this market are not only those who consume but also those who have intention and needs to consume. The same is with service - it is not only the one, which is always called, but also the one, which can solicit the calls, i.e. facilitates consumer's intentions and needs. How this happens - via Web/HTTP or WAR or VoiceXML - is the subject of implementation; the business semantic of SO market does not change because of communication channels. - Michael ________________________________ From: Rob Eamon <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 3:33:44 PM Subject: [service-orientated-architecture] Re: SOA is Dead >From the blog: "'SOA' has become a bad word. It must be removed from our vocabulary." Amen to that. But I hope we don't just jump on the next TLA with the same overwrought, over-hyped and over-extended expectations. Just about every thing you mentioned in terms "failed to deliver" is exactly what was said about EAI. Yet the fundamentals of EAI carry on in SO and other architectural approaches. A review of the comments to the blog reveals how varied are the expectations and meanings of "SOA." As you point out, it is the label that has issues, not the concepts behind the label (whatever those concepts may be for a given definition of SOA). Jeff suggested a focus on "the basics of service identification, analysis and design." Amen to that too. -Rob --- 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 >
