Long-Tail SOA and the Mythology of Re-Use

Thu, 22 May 2008 10:30:00 EDT

Not all services are created equal. It would be great if implementing SOA were simply a matter of applying a standard design pattern to all services. Once IT had identified and codified an optimal design standard, services could be stamped out in assembly-line fashion until the IT landscape had been transformed. Unfortunately, we don't live in a cookie-cutter service Utopia.

Bottom Line SOA

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:00:00 EDT

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has emerged as a promising harbinger of agility, but is certainly not without its critics. Although SOA is not a new concept, it's not a mainstream approach and has not yet demonstrated widespread, repeatable success. It's no surprise then that it's often met with passionate resistance. Given the lack of SOA case studies and the fact that it usually demands a dramatic departure from the norm, SOA is often sidelined to make way for the more traditional, generally accepted point-to-point (P2P) integration approach.

Articles by Marc Rix

Long-Tail SOA and the Mythology of Re-Use

Bottom Line SOA