On 10/2/07, Eric Newcomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ok, sorry, yes, that is how I see SOA. > > But it is a bit confusing then to say something like "you can use REST to > implement an SOA" isn't it?
Yes, it is. I hope I've never said that, because it's really an information-free statement. In practice, SOA is constraint-less (i.e. I've never seen a single architectural constraint common to everything referred to as "SOA"), and therefore for all architectural styles A, the statement "you can use A to implement an SOA" is true. Consider; You can use message passing to implement an SOA. You can use client/server to implement an SOA. You can use peer-to-peer to implement an SOA. etc.. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies http://www.coactus.com
