Dan Sholler

For you Gartner subscribers who are interested in WOA services, I suggest you take a look at the Reference Architecture for WOA. This is a description of the moving parts that are needed to implement a WOA-style service. The good thing about it is that there is not much there that is new; the architecture is completely consistent with that of the Web, and most of the content is derived from Roy Fieldings original thesis. Hopefully, it will be helpful to put that architecture into the service context.  We are seeing a growing number of WOA-style services that are being deployed in organizations. In fact, our survey numbers indicate that while these services represent a very small percentage of those in production, 87% of the respondents had at least one WOA service in their portfolio. From the conversations I have had, it seems that many of these services were built in a Web Oriented way because the providers and consumers were intended to be web sites. I look forward to doing more research into how these services are built and used in the coming year.

A very happy holiday to all, and I look forward to speaking with you in the new year.