Do customers really want SOA?

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Peer to Peer apps

I thought a while ago that this would be really
really powerful:

You build an application that is client server.
Except, as you can do with CORBA, you have a
queue of work farmed out to a cloud of servers.

Here is the rub: the cloud is the same machines
as the clients in my world.

In other words: you are running a client, and a
server listener.
When your client needs to do a big job, it
broadcasts (or asks it's own listbuilding
process) asking for servers to report with
current loading stats.
The job is broken up, and transmitted, the
results processed and returned.
I think you could run higher level processes -
like queue management on top of this system also.

AFAIK this is how Macs already do Video format
conversion. If they see other capable macs on the
network (desktops or a blade server in a back
room), they enrol their help.
If you run this in a virtual machine taking no
more than 20% of CPU time (in an IBM mainframe
kind of way), then the user will never notice a
degradation in performance.
Now THAT is cool.

I don't know if this is SOA, but it is a service,
and it is an architecture.... and the
architecture is orientated to the service.

Posted by: hipparchus2000   Posted on: 02/11/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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