Of all the architectures to come out in recent years, I think we can all agree, SOA is the most successful of them all. Unfortunately, most other architectures are subject to hype, poor planning and execution, and the harsh reality in the field doesn’t help. All these obstacles combine to prevent IT from achieving its goals and using these architectures effectively.
Not so with SOA. It managed to transcend the limitations of legacy monolithic architectures that predate it by moving in the direction of distributed, scalable goals. Enough goals for just about anyone to declare success:
SOA is about loosely coupled system integration. Sorry, I meant to say that SOA is about enabling loosely coupled business processes. On the other hand SOA is about reuse, except that its actually not about reuse.
And that’s just the first half of the post. Read the rest, but don’t follow the links without taking some of this.
Update: If what you’re looking for are ”real-world solutions for complex problems”, try this kind of SOA instead. (via Pascal)