{"id":319,"date":"2007-06-25T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2007-06-25T07:00:39","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T15:00:39","slug":"soa-trying-to-stoke-up-the-coals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/soa-trying-to-stoke-up-the-coals\/","title":{"rendered":"SOA: Trying to Stoke up the Excitement Again around SOA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Articles <\/a>started showing up in mid to late 2006 saying that SOA hype had saturated and had begun its descent on the hype scale. Developers and managers know that SOA can provide a very compelling architectural design, at least on paper, but in practice, they’ve found that it is not without pain.<\/p>\n

SOA challenges can come at many levels that include governance, testing, configuration, version control, metadata management, service-level monitoring, security, and interoperability. With so many challenges spread across so many facets of the enterprise, disillusionment can set in.<\/p>\n

A mid-2006 Gartner survey found that SOA didn’t produce the cost savings that people had expected. And 32% of the respondents even said that implementing SOA resulted in some or significant negative cost impacts.<\/p>\n

In an effort to stoke back up some of the excitement around SOA again, the Butler Group revisited <\/a>the basics of SOA and and listed benefits of the architectural approach:<\/p>\n