WOA! SOA meets Web 2.0
By David S. Linthicum
May 15, 2008 —
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Not sure if you’ve been paying attention, but there is a new term that’s being tossed about these days. It’s called Web Oriented Architecture or WOA. You can think of WOA as SOA meets the Web 2.0, but perhaps it's not that simple. WOA may indeed lead to SOA and evolve differently, albeit using the same patterns. Let's get into this a bit.
As most of you know, the process of dragging SOA and the Web together has been a crusade of mine for some time now. It appears that this is occurring at a much faster pace than anticipated. Indeed, if you look at the most successful SOA deployments, most occur on the Web, not within the enterprise. It does not matter to me if you call this “The Global SOA,”, “Web 2.0” or “WOA,” as long as the core value is understood.
So, if WOA is the bomb, where is SOA? I thought that Dana Gardner put it best in a recent blog post:
“The uptake of general-purpose service enablement is by no means a hockey stick trend line. The adoption patterns some five years into the SOA evolutionary path do not show a ‘slam dunk’ demand effect. The role, impact and importance of SOA are, in fact, ambiguous … still. Many see it as merely an offshoot of EAI rather than a full-blown paradigm shift.”
The ugly truth behind SOA, as we've discussed here a few times, is that it's a slow evolution, not a revolution. It's complex, expensive, but typically worth it if you hang in there. However, hanging in there is something that U.S. companies don't do well. Tactical issues often trump strategic projects, thus SOA is slow on the uptake. So, Dana is correct: SOA is slow, WOA is fast. But maybe they are solving the same problems.
I really don’t care if you do SOA on the Web, within the firewall or both. Indeed, the emerging Web demonstrates more of a hockey stick adoption pattern and is worth a look in the context of SOA. The world of Web 2.0 is innovating and experimenting at break-neck speed with social media, social networking, Ruby on Rails, SaaS, Python, REST and a mix of rich Internet application approaches, including AJAX.
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