Four questions to ask before putting SOA 'lipstick' on that legacy 'pig'

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Hammer salesman sees nails everywhere

As Reactivity's business is putting Web services functionality in front of legacy stacks, Mike's thoughts carry particular weight.

I see nails everywhere. He also starts off with a fallacy:

Mike notes that every developer has an innate desire to create something completely original.

Not exactly accurate. Every developer has the innate desire to get paid. If they can get paid just as much reusing someone else's code, then the copy/paste functions on their workstation will melt down from all the use.

By stating that as an assumption it subtly announces to any management types reading this column that your internal programmers really just want to sling new code for maximum billing, can't be trusted to give an honest evaluation of the cost/benefit of code reuse in a particular instance and if they want the real inside scoop on code reuse call this guy. It's more about how consulting services are sold than how SOA is implemented.

SOA is just one tool in the box. Sometimes it's the right one, sometimes not. There are more than four things that go into that determination. Anyone can hit a home run layering SOA in front of a well-built application. There are also a dozen different way to solve the same set of problems.

Beware of buying your solutions from a hammer salesman.

Posted by: Chad_z   Posted on: 03/19/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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