Daniel Fisher(lennybacon) - SOA, Data and the Web - Thoughts on JBOWS and the victom of "yet another tool"

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Thoughts on JBOWS and the victom of "yet another tool"

I really enjoyed reading Nicks post here.

[...]

If you take a group of well-meaning and intelligent engineers,

and you give them a process that looks like a normal software development process**, and you train them on it, and they believe that this process works...

and you add SOA...

you get JaBOWS (Just a Bunch of Web Services).

[...]

Many companies out there trying to get on the SOA road fail by believing a tool can lead the way.

We at devcoach use to say: SOA is not about engineering or architecture. It's a mind setting.

Therefore a tool can at maximum support you on the long road towards service orientation.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 8:54:40 AM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

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Daniel Fisher is a co-founder of devcoach® (www.devcoach.biz), a company that supports and accompanies customers in projects with the Microsoft® .NET platform all through from architecture to deployment.

Daniel has a strong emphasis on service-orientation (SOA), agile methodologies and processes, the web and data access.

He is a recognized expert in the SOA-field and plans and realizes distributed systems on the Microsoft platform since many years. Daniel is one of the early Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) experts and was a member of the technical adoption program for the Microsoft Corporation.

For the federal office for security in information technology of the German government he and Michael Willers have created a security analysis and written practice-proven guidelines for the daily work with WCF. As experts for the topic "SOA with .NET" they traveled through Europe to discuss the requirements of architects from all over the world and help them implement solutions.

Daniel is developing software since 1995 (since 1999 on the .NET platform) and has worked several years on projects as a developer, architect, project lead and consultant for insurance companies, distributors, mobile communications hardware, construction supplies and various other companies of different branches.

He is actively contributing to the software developer community as chair-man of JustCommunity e.V. (www.justcommunity.de), organizer of the biggest regional community event, and lead of a user group.

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