Re: drinking the koolaid WAS: Latest EGL Features

Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

are you calling Joe a politician LOL? (i'd vote for him)

Why thanks, Tommy! A couple of people who love to disagree with me are contending that some sort of "personal direction history foul" has occurred. WTF is personal direction history, anyway? I think it means I changed my mind on something, but it sounds much more ominous when you use big words.

Anyway, don't let 'em fool ya. I haven't changed my position one bit. SOA is simply another phrase for client/server computing, and the extraneous stuff that was being hyped (stuff like UDDI) is already gone, as I predicted way back in 2004. I challenged the hype, and basically said that if SOA means only SOAP and UDDI, it won't be around for long.

http://www.mcpressonline.com/internet/general/service-oriented-architecture-soa.html

Well, as it turns out, it seems like IBM has the right idea: SOA is not SOAP, nor is it web services. SOA is two machines talking, whether it's using WS/SOAP or REST/JSON (or perhaps some new communications technique down the road). Heck, SOA can be two machines talking using <gasp!> MQ-Series! The beauty is that with EGL, you don't really care. You write business logic, tell it how you want to communicate, and the tool does all the plumbing.

I don't know about you, but my personal direction is FORWARD, baby...

Joe