In the next five years, service-oriented architecture (SOA) will be used by architects and developers to create the next generation of "design-for-people, build-for-change" applications, but SOA won't do it alone, according to Forrester Research Inc.

Forrester analysts envision a whole new category they call "Dynamic Business Applications," which will be based on SOA development principles, but also include an alphabet soup of attendant technologies. The analyst firm is urging architects and developers to plan for the next five years by thinking holistically about SOA plus what it labels as the B3 technologies, which are business process management (BPM), business intelligence (BI) and business rules.