Acronyms

Overheard: SOA explained

“This article presents a simple, technology-agnostic approach to designing and evolving SOAs. You will not see acronyms such as WSDL, SOAP, or REST, and I promise not to use technical terms like “orchestration,” “realization,” and “governance.”’ Dan North, A Low-Tech Approach to Understanding SOA

SOA stand for “service oriented architecture.” It sounds scary, but it’s not. It’s really just one computer program talking to another — and each of the programs is called a service. Dan North does a great job explaining it.

Overheard: SOA, 2B or not 2B an acronym?

“Typically, it’s either a word or it’s not. No two ways about it. You don’t hear anyone talking about deploying on the U-N-I-X operating system, and no one attaches S-O-A-P headers on their Web services. GUI, of course, is Gooey. G-U-I sounds like something you could get locked up for.” Joe McKendrick, Should “SOA” be a Word, or Stay an Acronym?