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I don't know about you, but I am getting a little tired of the apparent need within the developer community to create new buzzwords and terminology to describe what we do. When I say the developer com

By Paul Rolich | Updated on December 31, 2005

I don’t know about you, but I am getting a little tired of the apparent need within the developer community to create new buzzwords and terminology to describe what we do. When I say the developer community, I am talking about marketing geeks who work for software companies and the journalists who write about these wonderful new “architectures.” Real developers understand the whole “call a routine–return a result” process without needing to name it. The term that really is sticking in my craw these days is service-oriented architecture (SOA).

As I flip through the countless software and IT magazines I receive, I see article after article on how to implement SOA. And, of course, you can’t discuss SOA without getting into such esoterica as object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD), enterprise architecture (EA) frameworks, and business process modeling (BPM). If you truly are one of the cognoscenti, you would focus on service-oriented analysis and design (SOAD) instead of the humble SOA. I recently saw a posting on an SOA blog likening this terminology to “food-oriented lunch.”

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