Re: drinking the koolaid WAS: Latest EGL Features

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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