What’s in a name?
Frans is annoyed with all the SOA marketing going around. Although I fully agree with his point that technically it’s nothing new and just the continuation of architectural principles established decades ago, I do think that it’s worth considering how they are best implemented in the current environment. The current environment consisting of fat clients everywhere all hooked up with some kind of broadband connection to the Internet and tuned to work best with *ML-formatted data going across a TCP/IP connection using port 80.
So when you conclude this landscape will remain so for the coming years or will in fact be more and more appropriate for this technology (which is to be expected since I don’t see the web going anywhere soon) then it’s interesting to think about how these basic client/server-principles can most effectively be mapped to the applications you want to develop. SOA is apparantly Microsoft’s plan for this.
