Android and SOA

Certainly the Web is the largest influencer of software architecture and technology innovation since the LAN. SOA was highly influenced by said Web architecture. In turn, services have driven the unique course of Web innovation in recent years.

Take for example mobile development. Actually, take for example Sam Herron’s recent take on Android. He blogs: “I would like to position Android’s client interface with Calendar, Contacts, and Gmail as mobile SOA.” Check out his post. See what you think. Is this pushing the definition of ‘SOA’ too far? Click on ”Comments” to contribute.

For our part, we will reiterate: We think SOA has driven a whole lot of other technologies.

Android SOA - service oriented architecture - TheAndroidGuys, Sept 24, 2009