Jay Glynn's Blog

I read in SD Times today that OASIS is going to define SOA for us. From the article:

Just what is and what is not part of a service-oriented architecture is the subject of the latest work the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) is pursuing

Another quote:

 Writing a specialization of SOA for electronic business was going to get difficult because a generalized definition of SOA didn’t exist

They are comparing this process to describing the parts of a car. Where the parts are and how they relate to each other in the overall function of the car. They said the reference model should be completed by the end of the calendar year. I feel so much better now. We'll finally have someone that tell us exactly what SOA is (and how the driveshaft is connected to the axel).

I'll be working the in the Community Lounge at the Author/Publishers booth. As of now I'll be there Mon during lunch, most of the day on Wed and for a couple of hours on Thurs. I'll also be hosting the Pragmatic Architecture BOF session on Wed night BOF041 in Cabana 2.

One other note, the Professional C# 2005 book is getting close. I'm working on the final edits of the Winforms and XML chapters now. It's really tough only having 1 chapter for the Winforms in the book. So many topics to discuss, so few pages. 2005 adds so many great features to client development it's hard to keep it all under 70 pages.