Ok. I guess that wasn't very straight forward. You are refering to physical acts of creation. I am refering to what is actually going on irrespective of people's imaginations.
SOA is not a technology, it is a buzz word that a few marketers created. It is no more a piece of technology than the word "dajslfkjsladjflsjafljas".
In order for something to be useful, it must hold up to real world empirical analysis. An example of a so-called technology that has failed like CMP-EJB. SOA is not even as close to technology as CMP-EJB because although CMP-EJB failed, at least it had a definition in the real world. In other words, even though EJB-CMP was a step backward or at best a lateral step, it had more value than SOA.
If I said, I had a new paradigm that was going to revolutionize software development called "Pluggable Popsicles" and didn't bother to define it, no one would pay attention. But when Oracle and BEA come up with a new meaningless term in order to sell their crappy products everyone jumps on board because Oracle and BEA are assumed to be experts. Sorry, but I refuse to believe that anyone at IBM, Oracle, Sun, or BEA is the messiah because in most cases they are even dumber than I am. Web Services is a technology (a poor one). SOA is hype.
SOA as most people define it (and as this article defines it) is pretty much the same as CORBA which, after 20 years of experiment, has proven to be a mess. |
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