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RE: Re: Major Historical SOA Milestone Today

• To: "bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan@g...>
• Subject: RE: Re: Major Historical SOA Milestone Today
• From: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@b...>
• Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 16:04:42 -0400
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• Thread-topic: Re: Major Historical SOA Milestone Today

<Quote>
This guy was quite smart and technically competent as well, I attempted
a few times to get a description of SOA out of him. I never did get
anything that I recognized as being technical
</Quote> 

That happens often, I believe. The way I usually explain it is that the
"A" in "SOA" implies technology (not another type of architecture - i.e.
not a home architecture), which means that SOA is about technology
supporting business and mission capabilities, etc. etc.

Joe

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-----Original Message-----
From: bryan rasmussen [mailto:rasmussen.bryan@g...] 
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 3:54 PM
To: Michael Kay
Cc: xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re:  Re: Major Historical SOA Milestone Today

>
> Or could someone correct me? If I bumped into a service-oriented IT 
> system in one bank on one side of the street, and an object-oriented 
> IT system in another bank on the other side of the street, how would I

> tell which was which (other than by the choice of jargon on the
Powerpoint slides)?

an anecdote of minor interest. We had a student in our office that did
his thesis on SOA. got a very good grade, has a nice job now. This guy
was quite smart and technically competent as well, I attempted a few
times to get a description of SOA out of him. I never did get anything
that I recognized as being technical, although whenever he talked about
it he got that abstracted look that I get trying to explain various
technical things to people. But anyway, I DID manage to confirm from him
that both REST and SOAP-based webservices were SOA.

Not sure if that helps narrow it down though ;)

Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen

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