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by Udi Dahan.
Original Post: Service-Oriented Elephants
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I've been getting some emails and calls asking me what I think about Rocky's recent post Semantic coupling: the elephant in the SOA room. There have already been some comments on Rocky's site, not to mention Philip Nelson's post. What I want to address here is at two levels. The first is the feeling of frustration about what's going on in the SOA space. I sense that Rocky, and a lot of other people too, aren't particularly happy with this new craze, and I must say that I too share these feelings. Too many SOA evangelists who have been involved with too few large-scale projects in their careers are blowing smoke up the entire industry's arse.
From the first day I heard about SOA (about a year and a half, 2 years ago), I realized that Web Services wasn't the big deal. Or rather, from an EAI perspective, web services bring standardization, but they aren't going to solve the hard problems found in large-scale systems development.
Anyway, the second level I wanted to address will be on a more logical, point-by-point basis...
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