SOA is some­thing you do...

...and not some­thing you buy!

If you only re­mem­ber one thing from the BEJUG work­shop on SOA then it should be this. And if you didn't go to this work­shop: make sure you can go next time, be­cause it was worth it:-)

But se­ri­ous­ly, all too of­ten do peo­ple buy a prod­uct and then start to look at how to use it, say, to build a SOA (Ser­vice Ori­ent­ed Ar­chi­tec­ture). This is like buy­ing a car: would you get a rolls royce first, and then pick the road to dri­ve it on? Or would you rather look at the road first, and then choose the best car for it? I would do the lat­ter...

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