Comments on: Open Source and SOAs http://redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/14/open-source-and-soas/ One foot in the muck, the other in utopia Tue, 29 May 2012 14:02:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Ric http://redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/14/open-source-and-soas/#comment-1420 Tue, 15 May 2007 01:33:46 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/14/open-source-and-soas/#comment-1420 And in response to that list of questions: is SOA a technological construct, or a business one?

(and in case you didn't see the Tweet: how do open source softwares like ServiceMix/Mule stack up to Sonic/Cape Clear/Tibco etc in terms of what might be important to enterprise customers?)

]]> By: Christopher Mahan http://redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/14/open-source-and-soas/#comment-1419 Mon, 14 May 2007 17:09:34 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/14/open-source-and-soas/#comment-1419 1: Under what circumstances is it OK for SOA to have absolutely no security?

2: Under what circumstances is it OK for SOA to have zero user identification?

3: Give an example of something that can be part of SOA without any XML capabilities.

4: Can something be considered part of an SOA architecture if its response time is greater than 1 second? And is not asynchronous?

5: Can SOA contain components that only interact with one other system, and does not talk through the BUS?

6: Can something be still considered an SOA if there is no computer-capable service-discovery?

7: Is it OK for SOA to be entirely URL-based and rely on DNS exclusively for service connection? or does it need more?

8: Can a SOA span firewalled sections easily?

9: Can a SOA include proxy servers?

10: Can a SOA component work as a unix program and be piped?
Example: $ soaservice("get_data") | soaservice("transformdata") | soaservice(encode_data) > out.txt

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