Jonathan Altman

So I disagree with the way the argument in this post is framed, but I am glad to see the "mainstream" tech press realizing there's a better way to get to SOA:

A growing number of companies are finding that lower-visibility Web-oriented architecture…

I have posted several times about it, made a bunch of different arguments, and anybody who has talked to me about web services has heard me try and make the argument not to force a web service to be the serialized transfer of object artifacts. But…

Finally, a description of good web service/SOA design that even pointy haired bosses can understand :-) The graphics are designed to make it clear to non-technical users how to go about designing the boundaries of your web services/SOA!

Earlier, I posted about how not forcing all access to web services to go through objects that were serialized into and back out of XML but instead were XML documents that were designed to stand on their own made it easier to implement both web…

Found this quote today from Eve Maler

The trend in distributed computing is towards service-oriented architectures (SOAs). Early in the life of this buzzword, some people said it should really be called a document-oriented architecture (except for…