Comments on: SOA vs ROA http://akf-consulting.com/techblog/2008/04/08/soa-vs-roa/ Technical and Leadership Thoughts Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:33:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Jorgen Thelin http://akf-consulting.com/techblog/2008/04/08/soa-vs-roa/#comment-6158 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:16:51 +0000 http://akf-consulting.com/techblog/2008/04/08/soa-vs-roa/#comment-6158 > "Resource Oriented Architecture is a term coined by Alex Bunardzic in his August 8, 2006 blog entry." I think you'll find that the first recorded use of the term "Resource Oriented Architecture" occurs in my blog posting from February 2003 - pre-dating the entry on Alex's 2006 blog post by over three years! http://www.thearchitect.co.uk/weblog/archives/2003/02/presentation_a_comparison_of_serviceoriented_resourceoriente.html > “Resource Oriented Architecture is a term coined by Alex Bunardzic in his August 8, 2006 blog entry.”

I think you’ll find that the first recorded use of the term “Resource Oriented Architecture” occurs in my blog posting from February 2003 - pre-dating the entry on Alex’s 2006 blog post by over three years!

http://www.thearchitect.co.uk/weblog/archives/2003/02/presentation_a_comparison_of_serviceoriented_resourceoriente.html

]]> by: Fish http://akf-consulting.com/techblog/2008/04/08/soa-vs-roa/#comment-88 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:13:16 +0000 http://akf-consulting.com/techblog/2008/04/08/soa-vs-roa/#comment-88 Hi Alex, really nice of you to link back to our post. ROA is a great concept but contrary to your post we think we do 'grok' it very clearly. You, like most parents, think your child is the best. ROA to us is not a religion, just like we don't preach java or ruby or RPC or well you get our point. They all have their pros and cons, and should be used when appropriate, not despite their inappropriateness. You argue that there is no such thing as a service, that's a pretty myopic view in our opinion. You use the public library system as a metaphor for the web, where people GET books they want to consume. This is a great example but you forget that you need to sign up for a library card before you can checkout anything. Signing up, registering, issuing, these are all services. Got a question for the librarian? That seems like a service to me also. Sure, you can convolute any of these into a resource if you really try but back to our earlier point, why force fit a technology, an architecture, or a pattern? We would rather have lots of cool tools in our toolbox, like ROA, and use the tool that is appropriate. Hi Alex, really nice of you to link back to our post. ROA is a great
concept but contrary to your post we think we do ‘grok’ it very clearly.
You, like most parents, think your child is the best. ROA to us is not a
religion, just like we don’t preach java or ruby or RPC or well you get our
point. They all have their pros and cons, and should be used when
appropriate, not despite their inappropriateness. You argue that there is no
such thing as a service, that’s a pretty myopic view in our opinion. You
use the public library system as a metaphor for the web, where people GET
books they want to consume. This is a great example but you forget that you
need to sign up for a library card before you can checkout anything.
Signing up, registering, issuing, these are all services. Got a question
for the librarian? That seems like a service to me also. Sure, you can
convolute any of these into a resource if you really try but back to our
earlier point, why force fit a technology, an architecture, or a pattern?
We would rather have lots of cool tools in our toolbox, like ROA, and use
the tool that is appropriate.

]]> by: Ethical Software by Alex Bunardzic » World Wide Web is About Self-Serve http://akf-consulting.com/techblog/2008/04/08/soa-vs-roa/#comment-86 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:09:04 +0000 http://akf-consulting.com/techblog/2008/04/08/soa-vs-roa/#comment-86 [...] Almost two years since I’ve proposed the term Resource Oriented Architecture, I am still amazed at how no one seems able to grok the concept. Posts such as this one, or this one etc., illustrate total lack of even the basic insight into the nature of the world wide web. [...] […] Almost two years since I’ve proposed the term Resource Oriented Architecture, I am still amazed at how no one seems able to grok the concept. Posts such as this one, or this one etc., illustrate total lack of even the basic insight into the nature of the world wide web. […]

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