SOA, Web 2.0 Interplay: Will standards be spoilsport?
While SOA has emerged as a panacea for integration owing to the standards based interfaces to applications it advocates. The complementary trend of Web 2.0 is promising the extend the reach of SOA to newer unexplored frontiers, like client side SOA, rich service consumer ecosystems, lightweight SOA etc.
However, as of now there are very few standards in the Web 2.0 world. Will standardization be the spoilsport in creation of this extended Web 2.0 - SOA interplay?
The fact of the matter is that the standardization efforts in Web 2.0 are still to pick up momentum, though initial efforts are on at W3C and OpenAjax Alliance. From richer standards within the lightweight models, some candidates for standardization in Web 2.0 include metadata within RSS/ATOM/JSON, standards for common data elements, standards for non-functional requirements like security in REST interactions, etc
In light of this, as pointed in http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid26_gci1278423,00.html standards might be the spoilsport in the maturing of the Web 2.0 SOA interplay either via richer service ecosystem emergence, utlization of Web 2.0 for business directed mashups (a closer BPM -SOA possibility like Sohrab points in his earlier entry), emergence of practical lightweight SOA interaction models, etc..
Comments
The article was really useful in highlighting the linkage between SOA and Web2.0. Web2.0 is not just RIA and AJAX but about lightweight, user driven computing. Would like to know more about lightweight SOA (which sure sounds like an oxymoron but actually has tremendous relevance in terms of uptake of SOA in enterprises) and its possibilities in future.
Posted by: Sudeep Mallick | November 16, 2007 10:02 AM