Re: [soa-rm-ra] SOA repositioning - from QCon-2009

["Mike Poulin" <mpoulin@usa.com>]

Hi Folks,
I just returned from the International QCon-2009 conference organised in London by InfoQ (well-known technology portal). There were 42% of participants from the UK, about 25% - from the US, the rest - from over the World. These numbers are important because I've found a new appearance of SOA (at least, to me). This includes:

1) SOA becomes a commodity - very few announce SOA involvement but refer to it as to a regular ‘thing’
2) it appeared as a common conclusion that Web Services and ESB are quite inconvenient tools and require significant modifications
3) the reason for 2) is in that everybody talked about business 'change' and change adoption using service-oriented means (RA can be a strong player in this area)
4) many have reached the understanding about service description and services contract that is quite close to the related RA definitions
5) many started to talk about tasks for SO solutions and pointed to the business (vs. IT in the past) as the source of them
6) some even referred to execution context. The major contributor in this area were additions brought by Eric Evans for Domain-Driven Design ( I supported him with Domain Service-Oriented Modelling  DOSOM)

All together, this sounded very similar to the business-oriented consumer-centric SOA

Thank you for your attention,
- Michael

--

Be Yourself @ mail.com!
Choose From 200+ Email Addresses
Get a Free Account at www.mail.com!