Monday, November 09, 2009

Manifesto Time: SOA with Common Sense

Ok, I had seen "SOA Manifesto" link on my Google reader (written by Stefan T), but hadn't paid much attention to it. Too busy designing and implementing services, as it happens. But today I decided to have a peek, and was pleasantly surprised. I don't know what's with manifesto's, but it seems like ones I bother to read make sense. Granted: my sampling of manifestos is little more than sequence of the venerable Clue Train Manifesto, and Agile Manifesto. But the track record here is bit better than with other kinds of declarations within technical domain.

At any rate, go ahead and read it, it belongs to Just-Makes-Sense category. Good stuff, pragmatic, not too fluffy. Sometimes it does really pay off to find bit of common ground, in between dead-horse-beat-fests.

ps. for an alternative view, you can find many rebuttals (like this one -- but don't waste too much time on it; it's not written very well, and mostly focuses on strawman argument ["it can't be good because it was written by bad guys wrote crappy software"]).
This discussion (*) seems to be one of those cases where best arguments for something are made by people who are against the thing. :-)

(*) Assuming you can call talking past each other a discussion

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