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We Might Clear the Fog Around SOA, but its Future is Still Cloudy

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Contributed by: Sumeet Vij, Assistant Vice President/ Chief Engineer, Alion Science and Technology

Sumeet is a Senior SOA Architect at SAIC USA, a FORTUNE 500 company, where he leads the SOA Adoption Roadmap, Strategy and Implementation for a large DoD client. Sumeet has been on the forefront of SOA and its related technologies. At webMethods (now Software AG), he was involved from the very early stage with the implementation of XML-RPC (US Patent: 7028312, circa 1999), the precursor to current day SOAP. During his tenure at webMethods he has acted as the lead engineer and architect for numerous SOA infrastructure products, starting from webMethods Integration Server, B2B to Enterprise Application Integration, SOAP stack and WS-* standard implementations, high performance Policy Enforcement Points and SOA Governance products. These Enterprise level SOA software products are currently deployed at thousands of customer sites.

Despite the widespread hype and reams of articles in technical and business journals alike, one question that still causes consternation amongst customers and practitioners alike is, “What is Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)”? If compiled, the answers to this question would fill copious volumes, but a consensus on an answer would be elusive. The reason the answer to this question doesn’t fit into the mold of a precise technical definition is due to the fact that SOA is mostly a business concept, hence it has to be defined in a business context.

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