SOA 2.0 or Advanced SOA

SOA 2.0 or Advanced SOA

Amid much negative reaction, Oracle is taking up Service Oriented Architecture SOA 2.0 as "the next-generation version of SOA" combining service-oriented architecture and Event Driven Architecture, and categorizing the first iteration of SOA as client-server driven[11] . Even though Oracle indicates that Gartner is coining a new term, Gartner analysts indicate that they call this advanced Service Oriented Architecture SOA and it is 'whimsically' referred to as SOA 2.0.[12] Most of the pure-play middleware vendors (e.g., webMethods and TIBCO) have had SOA 2.0 attributes for years. Service Oriented Architecture SOA 2.0 can therefore be regarded as "more marketing noise than anything else"[13] and product evangelism rather than a new "way of doing things".

However, other industry commentators have criticized attaching a version number to an application architecture design approach, while others have stated that the "next generation" should apply to the evolution of SOA techniques from IT optimization to business development