On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Web is delivering on every aspiration of SOA? Come on lets not > run ahead of ourselves here.... > > The REST group does indeed focus on the technical design of systems > where this group has tended to focus on architecture. Now most of the > problem I face are in large scale enterprises where the detail of > technical implementation is rarely the issue, its all about the human > aspects and how people and companies are organised to deliver complex > systems effectively over an extended period of time. > > I find it interesting that back in 2003 most SOA groups talked about > Web Services and technical implementation and now 5 years on we are > talking about the harder problems of organisational and cultural > change, while REST is back again at the way to build a better wheel. > > The on going problem of IT is that people continue to think that a > technology will deliver a massive step change in the success, > maintainability and evolution of IT estates. Don't you find it > depressing? I do.
What I find depressing is the gap between the success of the Web and the failure of traditional enterprise integration projects with an SOA label slapped on them. -- Nick
