on SOA thing....(1)

As far as i figure it out from e-mails, everybody confused about SOA phenomena.

To me, this is normal, since SOA just jumped into our regular developer life.

Some people consider SOA as a software development methodology while others take it as an implementation issue. I think both approaches are right.

Before getting into it, let's flashback several years ago and think about web services thing. Those days were the Web Services day where everybody were trying to inject this new concept into their applications and the mainstream of development was "integration" and "consolidation" was the gold biz-hype. Right after those days, everybody then switched on the interfacing those web service-enable systems with each other. Then, some biz-people backed by technical geeks, tried to name this phenomena with a fancy name. So this is the story.

Because of this light-speed shift, everybody got confused on SOA thing. Some people tried to expose and focus on integrating the services methodologicaly, and others tried to mark the implementation strategies. And even more confused ones tried to explain the subject as Web Services = SOA.

This is the all story from my point of view.