Back from the SOA World conference held in NYC. I was only there for a day, but enjoy my short time at the conference including meeting practitioners and vendors. I'm seeing the same people at all of these SOA conferences, including vendors and speakers. Not sure if that is good or bad.

One of the things that keep popping up in my mind was once again the lack of "architecture" when you consider "service oriented architecture." I saw this in two major ways:

First, was one of the case studies given during the general sessions. The focus was more on the technology and vendors they selected, ESB, governance, etc., and not on how they derived the solution and the method and process for doing so. At the end of the day I felt that what they really had was a JBOWS (just a bunch of Web services) with some fancy software around it. I hope they solved their business issues, but from the presentation it was not clear.