It's no exaggeration to point out that service-oriented architecture is everywhere these days. SOA has become so popular some vendors even claim to have it where it isn't.
And, like the years before it, plenty of folks complained about SOA in 2007 even as the IT profession continued its inexorable march toward service orientation. Yet every major application development vendor moved deeper into SOA as the year progressed and users started to show off some spiffy new services as the fruit of their re-orientation labors.
In fact, the number of stories that won't make the SearchSOA.com list this year is massive. Eclipse Europa, numerous advancements in the Java community and the growing importance of testing/QA all were worthy contenders that won't get mention beyond this sentence.
