I am going to BEAWorld and I get to participate in the keynote panel discussion about Service-Orientated Architecture (SOA). This is going to be exciting as SOA is the AJAX of the services world. 
Like AJAX, SOA is nothing new but it is getting a lot of attention because vendors are finally coming out with development tools.
While SOA is getting a lot of attention, people have been building services, which are essentially self-contained, stateless business functions that have a well-defined interface and are usage, language, and platform agnostic. For the past few years, I have been preaching the gospel of services and SOA at my place of work to make us more agile and better able to respond to changing business conditions. It's interesting to see the SOA market mature where some vendors are coming together to come up with a Maturity Model.
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