Very interesting reply. :-) You're right that we should mainly focus on getting a project to incorporate SOA concept instead of arguing about the "right" approach - each organization has there own particularities. However, there is a concern that a failed project might shed a bad image on SOA or even worse, if all the budget was used to buy and develop something that is totally unusable and was brushed beneath the desk at the dark corner of the room. :-)
Oh, BTW. somebody found my server, which housed my first attempt at ESB, in a forgotten cabinet at the back of the room today. I was pretty certain that nobody would find it before I retire. So the world goes. lol H.Ozawa 2009/5/26 Alexander Johannesen <[email protected]>: > > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 03:50, Rob Eamon <[email protected]> wrote: >> I would offer this addition: don't pursue an "SOA initiative." That, IMO, >> is >> the completely wrong thing upon which to focus. > > Completely wrong, eh? :) Well, lots of organisations find out that > their current infra-structure is becoming rather inflexible and jump > on SOA (or what they perceive as SOA) as a means to fix it. I'd say, > good for them! Even with a bad lessons learnt they'd still get some > positive outcomes from it; architecture in general, web-services (or > equivalent) as a wrapper, service-minded thinking, etc. > >> Using SO principles might >> help structure a system to meet particular goals but SOA is not the >> end-game. > > For companies which are at their wits end, I'd say it just might be, > and that it might not even be a wrong thing to pursue either. Playing > it as an end-game is an opportunity for the organisation to take it > further once their brains click around the concepts. > >> It is one particular way to organize the components of an >> (probably enterprise) architecture. > > Well, not so much a way to organize as it is a way to *think* about > organizing it. :) > > Regards, > > Alex > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Project Wrangler, SOA, Information Alchemist, UX, RESTafarian, Topic Maps > ------------------------------------------ http://shelter.nu/blog/ -------- > >
