Anyone listening to or reading many of the vendor statements and pundit analysis these days can be forgiven if they think that SOA is pervasive across all organizations large and small. However, most complete SOA efforts are still few and far between. In most cases, organizations are wrestling with a spaghetti architecture of Web services.
Consider these trends:
- Web services runs wide, but not deep: For a number of years, Web services has seen widespread adoption across enterprises, but for only select applications
- Reuse is gaining traction: The value seen in SOA is service reuse across more than one business unit; survey confirm that this is beginning to take place
- The blurry line between JBOWS and SOA: The journey to SOA is a gradual process, most companies are in stages in between.
I’ll be delivering a presentation at SOA World in New York tomorrow (Wednesday, June 27) on the topic of “JBOWS* or SOA — A Reality Check.” (*Just a Bunch of Web Services). I will explore some survey results that explore how far along companies are in moving from JBOWS to SOA.
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