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Web 2.0 - SOA interplay - emerging SOA governance trend

In the past blog entries, i have emphasized the role of Web 2.0 as a complementing trend for SOA, in multiple aspects primary being the emrgence of a rich service consumer ecosystem. However, a pleasant surprise in form of Web 2.0 based SOA governance formalisms, is pointing to stronger role for Web 2.0 SOA interplay..

Role of registry and repository in SOA governance has always been known. However, In the recent past, multiple erstwhile pure play SOA vendors, have come up with a revolutionary paradigm of SOA governance, not necessarily tied to heavyweight UDDI (or heavy standards thereof) based registries and repositories.

Vendors like MuleSource and WS02 are emphasizing the need for Web 2.0 based lighweight REST/ wiki based registries and repositories for scalable mechanisms for SOA Governance. See http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid26_gci1293867,00.html or http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid26_gci1299001,00.html 

 

The key USP of these appears to be the lightweight, and simple nature of the repositories / registries for end users. Hope this will usher in a wave of pragmatic  SOA governance deployments ..

 

Posted by Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni on March 22, 2008 03:52 PM |

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