Is SOA still emerging or do people just not care? SOA seems to have been around for a while, yet are we impressed with what we have seen so far? There seems to be plenty of talk about SOA, but it’s just working its way into the mainstream. Is SOA still catching on or does it confound organizations? The business community does not seem to care about SOA, but does the IT community really care? We seem to be stuck in an education, hype and proof-of-concept phase. The SOA community is certainly active and passionate. We talk to each other with wide-eyed possibilities of loosely-coupled services dancing, or orchestrating, in our heads. We care, but the rest don’t seem to. So what do we do? How do we make SOA relevant? Here is an open letter to the SOA community with some suggestions for how each of us can help the SOA cause.

3. Our Take on SOA The Next Generation Internet (NGI) Internet Adoption in the US (Apr. 2006)

14. Standards Bodies Keep it Simple! It may already be too late… BPEL ebXML JBI WS-CDL WS-Coordination WS Addressing JAAS JACC WS-I BSP WS-Security WS-SX ebSOA SCA SDO SOA-RM ASAP JMX WSDM WS-CAF WS-I RSP WSRF WSRM WS-RM WS-RX WS-TX WS-Eventing WS-Notification EAI J2EE CA JCA WS-I BP WSDL WS-Policy WS-MetadataExchange JAXB JAXP JAX-WS WS-I AP WS-Transfer SOAP w/Attachments WS-I AP WS-Transfer JAXR JNDI UDDI WS-Discovery CORBA DCOM FWSI IIOP Java EE/SE Jini JMS REST RMI RPC SOAP XML-RPC SOA Solution Providers Standards Bodies Universities Consultants IT Organizations SOA Architects >

15. Standards Bodies Keep it Simple! SOA Solution Providers Standards Bodies Universities Consultants IT Organizations SOA Architects > A Taxonomy of Standards Bodies…

16. Standards Bodies Keep it Simple! It may already be too late… Give it a REST (Simplicity is the pathway to adoption) SOA Solution Providers Standards Bodies Universities Consultants IT Organizations SOA Architects >

24. SOA Architects Create an architecture modeling language SOA Solution Providers Standards Bodies Universities Consultants IT Organizations SOA Architects > How do you draw your architecture?