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SOA enters 'Second Life'

By | May 28, 2009, 6:00pm PDT

Summary: Dave Linthicum saw Anne Thomas Manes’ latest post on the “SOA is Dead” affair, and declared that it’s time to move on from the ‘SOA is dead’ debate. “We’re entering a new, and productive, era where SOA is providing its appropriate value.” Hear, hear, well said. Anne herself said we all need SOA. Dave reflects other [...]

Dave Linthicum saw Anne Thomas Manes’ latest post on the “SOA is Dead” affair, and declared that it’s time to move on from the ‘SOA is dead’ debate. “We’re entering a new, and productive, era where SOA is providing its appropriate value.” Hear, hear, well said. Anne herself said we all need SOA.

Dave reflects other views that SOA is becomig so vital and ubiquitous that it’s, well, just a part of everything we do:

“We’re clearly moving into a new era where SOA is morphing into a core architectural tenant and is really fading into the seams of enterprise architecture, providing the appropriate value as what it is — just a handy architectural pattern… We’re off in a healthy direction, so let’s not ruin that.”

“Fading into the seams of EA” — well put, and as Dave has said in the past, perhaps it will all soon be about Enterprise Architecture.

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RE: SOA enters 'Second Life'
tjain123 10th Jun 2009
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So it must be dead in its first...
bjbrock 29th May 2009
life. In fact it's dead and stinking. Leave it there.
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Hear Hear indeed
SuperX3 29th May 2009
I am puzzled as to how anyone could question SOA and
its potential to attack the bad practice and and ills
of the pass. With the flurry of innovation around
process and standards to support SOA, it is clear that
there are many clever people out there that believe it
is the answer. I won't suggest it can survive in
spite of a lack of governance, but there is a real
need for some of our developers to get an SOA
education!
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Glad there seems to be growing consensus
reamon@... 29th May 2009
(except for bjbrock who appears to have a mission to trash talk SO) happy

"?Fading into the seams of EA? ? well put, and as Dave has said in the past, perhaps it will all soon be about Enterprise Architecture."

I'm glad more people are realizing that SOA isn't the thing to be focusing upon. SOA was never intended to be it's own level of architecture. It is a style to be applied to the levels we already had. Focus on EA in an SO way, not on SOA. Focus on BA in an SO way, not on SOA.

From Feb 8, 2008 post of mine: "Long live service oriented! But SOA must die!"
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/message/9670

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