{"id":202,"date":"2007-02-06T10:49:52","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T18:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=202"},"modified":"2007-02-06T10:49:52","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T18:49:52","slug":"soa-shades-of-soa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/soa-shades-of-soa\/","title":{"rendered":"SOA: Shades of SOA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last May at JavaOne, Oracle and Gartner outlined<\/a> a vision of something that they called SOA 2.0.\u00a0 They defined SOA 2.0 as a move away from ‘traditional SOA’ and Web Services based on a client-server model with services being treated as external methods called by clients.\u00a0 Oracle proposed something more general based on\u00a0asynchronous events being triggered by alerts and event notifications.<\/p>\n

The reaction was that many people felt that appending 2.0 to SOA was a marketing ploy\u00a0from Oracle.\u00a0 The first generation of SOA\u00a0was still being sorted out and some middleware vendors, like webMethods and TIBCO had already offered<\/a> capabilities similar to what Oracle was proposing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To object to the Oracle moniker, many people signed an\u00a0anti-SOA 2.0\u00a0petition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But no matter\u00a0what you call it, SOA has been and is evolving.\u00a0 Web 2.0 is currently making a strong mark on it.\u00a0 Dion Hinchcliff\u00a0made a list<\/a> of Emerging Ideas for SOA Architects in 2007, many of them influenced by what’s happening in Web 2.0.\u00a0 For enterprise applications involving sensitive data, some of these ideas\u00a0may not\u00a0fly, but for other applications, the ideas can make sense.\u00a0 The list includes:<\/p>\n