On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Ashley at Metamaxim < [email protected]> wrote: > > Nick Gall wrote: > > > Agree on the sentiments behind "SOA is dead". Disagree on the "long > live services". > > It is service-orientation, as conventionally understood, that got us > into the fragmentation > > caused by entity-specific (service) methods. > > Nick -- What do you mean by "entity-specific (service) methods" ? Do you > mean a service that is equated with (handled by) a single method call > to an entity object? If so, I am not sure that this is part of "service > orientation, as conventionally understood". It seems opposed to the idea > of course grained services, which are likely to involve multiple entities.
I mean overly specific methods like debit_checking_account vs debit_savings_account vs debit_moneymarket_account vs debit_brokerage_account... See the past discussion of "application neutral" interfaces in this forum. -- Nick
