In the latest OTN Arch2Arch podcast, two of the Manifesto’s authors --  Oracle VP and chief SOA technologist David Chappell and Oracle senior product manager and SOA architect Clemens Utschig-Utschig --  offer an inside look at what went on in that room. Listen to Part 1 (mp3). (Part 2 will be available next week.)

Note: Most of the questions asked during this interview were submitted in advance by Tweeters, or simply suggested by some of the rhetoric generated on Twitter by the SOA Manifesto. 

If you have your own questions for David or Clemens, you can connect with them through various social networks:

• David Chappell: Blog / Twitter / Oracle Mix / LinkedIn
• Clemens Utschig-Utschig: Blog / Oracle Mix / LinkedIn
  

Also of Interest

David, Clemens, and SOA author Thomas Erl discussed Erl’s SOA Patterns project in an Arch2Arch program in  May 2009.

Coming Soon

Upcoming OTN Arch2Arch podcasts will focus on the Oracle ACE Program, and on the Masons of SOA, a collaborative group of architects representing four different companies.

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This series of programs grew out of this Tweet, posted by Oracle ACE Director Lonneke Dikmans a few weeks ago:

"If you execute the architecture process well, other people don't notice your success. If you fail, they feel it's useless and slow... How can you make architectural success more visible in your organization?"

I contacted Lonneke right away to see if she would be interested in elaborating on her frustrations. Lonneke suggested fellow Oracle ACE Director Mark Simpson as a panelist, and I asked Oracle Enterprise Architects Mans Bhuller and Pat Shepherd to join the discussion – which would connect five people in three countries spanning four time zones.

Describing this three-part program as an interview would be a bit of an exaggeration. After introducing the panelists and asking Lonneke to describe the situation that inspired her Twitter message,  I had very little to do. The panelists did all of the talking, and would have gone on well beyond the scheduled time had other commitments not brought the discussion to an end.

This is a great discussion by four panelists who have been there, done that, and experienced the challenges first-hand. Listen for yourself:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

You can learn more about the panelists and engage them in your own discussion via the links below:

• Lonneke Dikmans
  Oracle Mix / Twitter / LinkedIn / Blog
• Mark Simpson
  Oracle Mix / LinkedIn / Blog
• Mans Bhuller
  Oracle Mix / LinkedIn / Blog
• Pat Shepherd
  Oracle Mix / LinkedIn / Blog

Upcoming Programs

Arch2Arch podcasts now in the works will cover:

• The SOA Manifesto
• Communicating Enterprise Architecture up and down the food chain
• The Oracle ACE Program

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“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…