{"id":468,"date":"2004-09-23T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2004\/09\/23\/what-is-soa-2\/"},"modified":"2004-09-23T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-23T12:14:00","slug":"what-is-soa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2004\/09\/what-is-soa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is SOA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/patricklogan.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/rest-and-soa.html\n\">Patrick asks<\/a>\nfor clarification of my\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/2002\/09\/Blog\/2004\/09\/22#2004-09-forrester-rest\">previous statement<\/a>\nabout how, IMO, REST proponents generally like SOAP and dislike SOA.  He writes;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>I consider myself a REST convert, to the extent I think I understand it and its incarnation in HTTP. Though I don&#8217;t understand the position above. Is there even a concrete definition of SOA with which to make this statement? <\/p>\n\n<p>I thought SOA was a fairly innocuous term, being so vaguely defined that an SOA could be built using REST and HTTP.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&#8220;innocuous&#8221;?  I wouldn&#8217;t say that.  I think it&#8217;s actively harmful as a name for an\narchitectural style.  As I see it, &#8220;SOA&#8221; means different things to different people.  As such,\nit&#8217;s almost entirely useless since it does nothing to constrain how\none might go about building distributed systems.  That&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t like it.\nIt&#8217;s for the same reason that I wouldn&#8217;t recommend the\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/~fielding\/pubs\/dissertation\/rest_arch_style.htm#sec_5_1_1\">null architectural style<\/a>\nas a guide from which to design\nan architecture; all REST and SOA based architectures are instances of the null\nstyle too! 8-)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick asks for clarification of my previous statement about how, IMO, REST proponents generally like SOAP and dislike SOA. He writes; I consider myself a REST convert, to the extent I think I understand it and its incarnation in HTTP. Though I don&#8217;t understand the position above. Is there even a concrete definition of SOA [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}