Re: new editor's draft of WSA available
Mark Baker <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:09:20PM +0200, Jean-Jacques Moreau wrote: > > SOA == Service Oriented Architecture... has been around for a while. > > Yes, it is possibly too easily perceived as SOAP sans P. > > My concern is that the acronym is never formally introduced. > There is no prior indication in the text that "SOA=Service > Oriented Architecture", only in drawings. I'd be all for removing any mention of SOAs, if only because I can't think of a distributed system which isn't about services. Email, ftp, irc, the Web; all are SOAs. Besides, we'd have to define it, and we know how icky getting concensus on definitions can be. 8-/ MB -- Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.idokorro.com