Revisiting the Synergies of Enterprise Mashups and SOA

We have opined about the synergies of mashups and SOA many times in the past (here, here and here, for example). But by far our most memorable and comment-provoking post was 'Implementing SOA without Enterprise Mashups? You might as well kiss your job goodbye' in August 2007. It remains one of my personal favorites largely because the ideas in that post seemed to appear fully-formed in my head.

To celebrate the 1-year anniversary(ish) of kissing our jobs goodbye, JackBe has published articles in SOA Magazine and SOA World Magazine that greatly expand on the synergy between enterprise mashups and SOA.

SOA Magazine has published part 2 of a 3-part series, ‘Enterprise Mashups Part II: Why SOA Architects Should Care’. Part 1 of this series, ‘Enterprise Mashups Part I: Bringing SOA to the People’ can also be found online. The final act of this opus (Part 3) should be published in a month or so.

SOA World Magazine has published ‘Enterprise Mashups, The New Face of Your SOA’. You can download the digital edition of the magazine (for at least the next month) for free by registering with Sys-Con.

We think both articles contain some genuinely innovative thoughts that evolve the mashup-SOA conversation we started a year ago. The techniques and best practives for SOA has evolved a great deal in the last year. I hope you’d all agree that we've also advanced the mashup-SOA conversation as well.