Anne Thomas Manes’ recent article proclaiming the death of SOA has started a firestorm across many SOA and IT-related blogs and forums.  I wrote about it here .  In the post, Anne refers to the severe disillusionment some feel towards the over-hyped term, “SOA”, and proposes we drop the term altogether and simply refer to the co

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Burton Group analyst and SOA guru Anne Thomas Manes recently blogged that “SOA is Dead ”, referring to the disillusionment and even disgust some feel towards the over-hyped term.  But she was referring just to the term SOA, not the concept itself.  On the contrary, service orientatio

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I found this article on SOA World,  SOA – Integration or Interaction?  We tend to forget that SOA is not just about integrating ,  Aristo Togliatti,  Aug. 26, 2008 05:45 A

Aristo says:

SOA and integration hav

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In previous blogs, I have discussed contract-first service design and the benefits to constructing services as information-rich, smart endpoints. In his most recent book, SOA: Principles of Service Design, Thomas Erl formalizes and extends the

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During the evolutionary SOA session at the Denver NFJS Symposium Tour by Neal Ford, I was decidedly convinced that XAware is right on track with the XAware 5.0 open source software.

 

Neal describes a service as:

• accessible from a variety of "clients" (applications or users)
• coarse-grained, self-contained business function
• sits idle until a

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Service development is about to explode in the enterprise, but these are not the custom-crafted, high value, reusable services you might see cruising the pristine avenue of your company’s SOA center of excellence. No, this will be massive. Instead of nicely architected brownstones with clean lines and aesthetic appeal, you’ll brush with small, hastily constructed, one-off services as

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While working at MCI in 1995, I was exposed for the first time to the benefits of service orientation. I was responsible for the order entry application for 1-800-MUSIC-NOW (which turned out to be a marketing flop), in which call center agents needed to process credit card payments for music CDs. Fortunately for me, MCI was alread

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