AJAX & SOA to merge? puh-lease!

This came up on my radar, its from the WebSphere Power Magazine.

"Although technologists have been calling for the marriage of hot technologies such as SOAs and AJAX to help users better leverage Web services, the industry is only now beginning to see products that fully support this integration. At the AJAXWorld conference, JackBe and TIBCO Software are unveiling initiatives to more tightly link service-oriented architectures and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML."

First of all, as we already know, SOA is not a technology.

[Originally posted here]

Second, SOA is not dependent on Web Services, but can be implemented with them.

As for integration between AJAX and SOA, from the service's perspective, anyone can send it a message, and the service will then decide based on certain criteria (policy if you will) whether or not to handle the message or send a response. So, AJAX doesn't change anything in terms of SOA. As for the ability to send a message to a service, AJAX has certain limitations security-wise since it's run out of the browser, but these shouldn't be a problem.

So, it appears for lack of anything important to do, the vendors decided to invest in integrating stuff that can already work together just fine, maybe a point-and-click interface for developers?

Posted by Udi Dahan at 02:17 AM  Permalink