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    • Who's on First, Services Oriented Architecture or Web Oriented Architecture? [view article]
      I think you hit the nail on the head when you call SOA an offshoot of EAI, and that's what's going to drive its adoption -- and limit it.

      There's nothing fundamentally better / more capable about SOA over WOA, but if you've got (as you say) fifteen different back-end systems to integrate, SOA is more attractive because it was built from the ground up to wrap them; it doesn't impose many limits at all.

      WOA, on the other hand, is usually ill-suited for that task, unless you're willing to go to a *lot* of effort. OTOH it's much simpler and more powerful if you're building fresh -- hence the focus of the startups on it.

      I tend to think that in the long run, SOA's market is pretty limited, but in the short to medium term, it's lucrative. WOA is a better long-term bet, but there's less money in it... for now.
      May 14 09:19 PM
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