| Title: |
Service Architecture Evolution |
| Author: |
David Sprott |
| Publication Date: |
26 November 2009 |
| Report Type: |
Journal |
| Report Class: |
Best Practice |
| Abstract: |
SOA is undergoing change in terms of principles and patterns and how these are deployed in order to respond to business demand.
SOA is a core architecture that will persist for many decades to come. But the original enterprise SOA vision is unlikely to be realized in the expected manner. Predictably vendors have over emphasized the technology and ROI has been more difficult to achieve or measure. In the current recessionary climate SOA is often insufficiently business centric to attract strategic funding and enterprises are typically focused upon very short term delivery of business value. Yet SOA is not dead, as some have suggested. Rather SOA will morph and converge with other concepts and technologies. In this report we explore how architecture practice is evolving to respond to the prevailing business climate and to embrace emerging technology trends. |
| Backgrounder: |
In other architecture disciplines time is an important factor. The analysis of building architecture provides an insight into cultures across different periods. I have commented previously that the gothic cathedral architecture style evolved over several centuries as techniques, materials and skills developed and as the buildings were erected in new environments that presented new challenges.
Of course in the modern world we are accustomed to expect everything to happen instantly and indeed in our disposable society, to also be superseded very rapidly.
Yet systems architecture by its very nature is longer lasting. Maybe not as durable as cathedral architecture, but it’s now ten years since we first articulated the SOA principles1 and we should expect SOA concepts and principles to be enduring because they are foundational. But we should also expect them to evolve. |
| Report Size: |
14 pages |
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