“Service orientation is a paradigm that frames what you do. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a type of architecture that results from applying service orientation. We have been applying service orientation to help organizations consistently deliver sustainable business value, with increased agility and cost effectiveness, in line with changing business needs.”
So begins the SOA Manifesto, the result of a meeting of leading SOA thinkers at last week’s SOA Symposium in Rotterdam. According to various reports, the Manifesto discussions never devolved into WWF-style, folding-chair-to-the-head negotiation tactics, but they came close, with a lot of conversational wrestling over SOA concepts and ideas. In the end, the SOA Manifesto’s seventeen signatories (including Oracle’s own David Chappell and Clemens Utschig-Utschig) emerged unscathed from the discussions.
The result is a clear, concise list of priorities and guiding principles that, naturally, will trigger a healthy debate in the blogosphere. That’s a good thing – as long as the furniture stays on the floor.
Early comments on the Manifesto are available from Clemens Utschig-Utschig and Oracle ACE Director Hajo Normann on their respective blogs. Of course, this is only the first round…
