The latest Web services/SOA from Evans Data finds that more than 40% of developers working on SOA can now complete a typical SOA development effort within three months – more than twice as many as a year ago. Additionally, more than 60% of all SOA projects are completed within just six months,the survey also finds.
I analyzed and authored the Evans Data survey report, which is based on interviews with more than 400 developers and managers, conducted in November. The rise in rapid development of SOA-related projects can be attributed to a growing comfort with SOA methodologies, as well as a maturing of products and tools.
The survey also found that more than four out of ten companies either have SOA projects underway or are planning to initiate SOA within the next 12 months. If number of services is any indication, then we are reaching that point of critical mass. Over the last two years, the total number of companies with more than 40 Web services in production has doubled and that number is expected to double once again in the next twelve months.
Obstacles to SOA are plenty, of course -- especially from the business side of the house. Determining return on investment for SOA is considered the number-one challenge to SOA development and deployment efforts, followed by getting organizational buy-in.
The dramatic productivity increases found in the survey come at the same time as developers and IT professionals embrace Microsoft’s .Net and Java for SOA in almost equal proportions, and both the Java and C# languages’ market share continue to grow as SOA implementations mushroom. Managed code, in fact, is becoming the wave of the future -- three years from now, two out of three SOA developers will be running the majority of their applications in managed code.
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