SOA

Despite the tension between Software Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture initiatives in recent years, and their competition for funding and resources, the two efforts actually go hand in hand. Focusing on only one effort causes suboptimal returns on the other, with a serious and negative impact on your SOA investments. Dan Rosanova details how this can happen and how to avoid it.

Weathering the recessionary storm shouldn't mean just perpetuating the status quo until the tempest clears. Richard Sykes identifies three transformational exercises that will deliver rapid benefits: SaaS, commoditized data services, and SOA.

Although the word "SOA" is dead, the requirement for service-oriented architecture is stronger than ever.

The traditional corporate hierarchy--the organizational structure that serves the company's business needs--can get in the way of software developers who need to create a service-oriented architecture which serves the business as a whole. Here's how to address some of the thorny issues it raises, especially in the process of gathering business requirements.

SOA projects can go drastically off course when they get tangled up in inter-system dependencies and new capabilities in myriad legacy systems. This can be the death knell of a service-oriented architecture initiative, as it falls behind schedule and runs over budget.

Igor Khurgin and Saurabh Verma of Acument Solutions explain why your enterprise needs a SOA governance framework before lawlessness takes over.

Deutsche Bank Managing IT Director John Stepper explains how he is building service-oriented architecture into the engine... with the car running.

Service-oriented architecture may be suffering from a PR disadvantage because few, if any, celebrities endorse it. If that is the problem, this blog entry is the cure.

The registry landscape needs to change, insists MuleSource's Dan Diephouse in this interview about the technologies on which Web services rely. The unholy trinity of SOAP, WSDL and UDDI needs to go.

SOAP, WSDL, WS-*, and UDDI are proven and widely adopted technologies and REST is growing strongly, believes a UDDI supporter from Microsoft. But while REST is often cited as a SOAP alternative, Microsoft's Steven Martin thinks this a distinction without a difference. "Does it really matter if there are angle brackets or curly braces on the wire?" he asks.