Having pre-dated SOA, been heavily involved in implementing SOA, and then watched SOA die on the vine, the overriding lesson was that technologists too often fo

Having pre-dated SOA, been heavily involved in implementing SOA, and then watched SOA die on the vine, the overriding lesson was that technologists too often focus on syntactic coupling and completely forget about semantic coupling (by far, the harder problem). For all it's highly proscribed, heavyweight, over-engineered approach, SOA could have succeeded if the focus of implementations been on the semantic coupling problem. Sadly, I see little evidence that the majority of the current crop of technologists have learned this lesson (irrespective of the technology choices). http://www.lhotka.net/weblog/SemanticCouplingTheElephantInTheSOARoom.aspx http://www.lhotka.net/weblog/SemanticCouplingTheElephantInTh...