Earlier this month, I interviewed five distinguished IT executives in preparation for a panel discussion at TIBCO's Tucon user group meeting in Orlando, Fla. Here's what these five experienced executives named as the top myths surrounding SOA:
Myth #5 - If you're using Web services (such as SOAP over HTTP), you've achieved SOA. Not so, says Martin Moseley, chief architect at Intuit, maker of Quicken and Turbo Tax software. "Even if you use Web services and apply object-oriented approaches, you may not achieve the kind of loosely coupled, autonomous and reusable components that are essential to true SOA," Moseley says.
Myth #4 - You can buy SOA out of the box. Not quite, says Manuel Ferreira, IT director at Galp, the largest oil and gas supplier in Portugal. "SOA is something you build for each enterprise, carefully studying each application and planning services that can be reused across that enterprise," Ferreira says. "If it's out of the box, it's probably not reusable." ...
