The Proper Role of SOA in an Organization
Have you ever wondered, what is the best way to implement SOA in your organization? How can it help you? What benefits await and what are the possible gotchas? Well, here's my take on it:
Used this way, the benefits include ensuring my monitor is at eye level for proper posture when writing code. In addition, any time I read in some article how SOA is going to solve the world's problems at some undetermined point in the future, I can always look down from the monitor and see the real role of SOA. Among the possible gotchas? For one, I have to actually look at the words "Service-Oriented Architecture" all day I suppose. Perhaps turning the book around might help on that issue. Another, possibly offending those who would prefer to use SOAP for all message passing (in lieu of methods which of course tightly couple the message sender and receiver, right?) in their application to ensure loose coupling between their components. Last, if and when the SOA hype cycle gives way to the next hype cycle, I'll need to actually spend more money to get another book to remind me to disregard the hype.
About Scott Leberknight
Scott is Chief Architect at Near Infinity Corporation, an enterprise software development and consulting services company based in Reston, Virginia. He has been developing enterprise and web applications for 14 years professionally, and has developed applications using Java, Ruby, Groovy, and even an iPhone application with Objective-C. His main areas of interest include alternative persistence technologies, object-oriented design, system architecture, testing, and frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, and Ruby on Rails. In addition, Scott enjoys learning new languages to make himself a better and more well-rounded developer a la The Pragmatic Programmers' advice to "learn one language per year."
Scott holds a B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and an M. Eng. in Systems Engineering from the University of Maryland. Scott speaks at the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposiums and various other conferences. In his (sparse) spare time, Scott enjoys spending time with his wife, three children, and cat. He also tries to find time to play soccer, go snowboarding, and mountain bike whenever he can.
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