Is SOA really dead? Can you kill something that never existed?
I really had to laugh when I read this article on InfoQ, that discussed a post from Anne Thomas Manes, who suggests that Jan 1, 2009 and the world financial crisis marked the death of SOA. Given that most people in IT don’t know what SOA is and because no-one can agree on a common definition, then what actually died? If this means that JBOWS is dead well then good riddance and perhaps Microsoft weren’t listening and just went ahead and bet the farm on all the new Oslo / Azure platform anyway. Just think, the Internet Service Bus, Dublin Application Server and all the other paraphernalia for nothing; however just cause MS is building this stuff doesn’t mean it will fly. Damn I won’t be able to use NServiceBus or MSMQ or anything ever again………………
SOA is dead! 
Haha, oh, wow.
I just received Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA by Thomas Erl from Amazon the other day. Thanks to Anne for saving me one hell of a long read. What a waste of time that would have been! Instead I will put it to use as a monitor stand.
I especially like part how the economy kills an architectural style…
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I think Ann’s post was somewhat tongue in cheek and I certainly do hope that Vendor cash-in on SOA does slow down and more focus goes onto SOA for the little man and more light gets shone on things like NServiceBus and perhaps even the Azure platform might signal the start of Microsoft really entering the SOA market with tools for the average SME developer. I haven’t yet looked at Azure with a serious eye so I cant offer a strong opinion on it yet, but it still doesn’t appear to solve my Service driven architecture for strictly behind the firewall scenarios. Wait and see……..
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SOA is dead.
Does this mean we’re entering SOA 2.0?
If BPELMXYZ died in the forest alone, would anybody hear it (or care?).
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Oh fab. Five years on…… SOA 3.5, Web 4.0. I love it
. More things to leave to perish in that forest.
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By current vendor definition you’re only SOA Two-ee if you use SOA with EDA and CEP and BPM and etc. etc. etc.
Aren’t we all sick of 2.0 marketing yet?
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