This post (<a href=”http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmalik/archive/2008/08/21/malik-s-laws-of-service-oriented-architecture.aspx”>Malik’s Laws of Service Oriented Architecture</a>) is short, to the point and a no-nonsense comment on how Service Oriented Archictecure will (or will not) come of age in the enterprise. I’ve been thinking for a while that SOA evangelists are the enterprise counterpart of OO evangelists; both have reusability high on their articles of faith, but the reality of how its achieved (beyond technology, that is) has been pretty elusive.
Well done Nick on repeating that reuse does not just happen by declaratively expressing it at the start of a new project or technology adoption. It takes interest from others, a value proposition and guarantees of payoffs for all involved. Perhaps the ‘hard work’ that’s going into SOA now is the driver behind triple-or-double digit growth that IT is spending on ‘integration’ lately. 