Second Wave of SOA

After an incredible hype cycle back in 2005 many organizations took the plunge. We were going to ride SOA into a new highly productive development environment. The idea was we’d build business services and then start composing applications on the fly based on these service components. The reasons for diving headfirst into SOA included:

Gartner [...]

Service Registry

About the time you realize UDDI doesn’t buy you that much another question comes up? How do we manage the services? Options include:

Put it off because we only have a handful of services? Buy a product or possibly use an open source service repository tool? Setup something informal like a wiki?

When you have [...]

SOA Silliness

One of our testers thought our ESB was broken. “Well, when I send in the payload against our main app it works so how come it throws an error here?”

“Because we’re actually validating the SOAP message”

“So is this other app.”

“Let me show you.”

At this point the developer created a quick XML [...]