One of the pleasant surprises of Code Camp was how well the “ad-hoc” sessions held in one of the smaller rooms were recieved. Darren Neimke managed to make it along to one of the sessions on Service Oriented Architecture and on the trip back to Canberra we chatted about the subject for a while.
I took the Sessionian stance that SOA is the by-product of political boundaries in large organisations (I hope I am not misrepresenting Mr. Sessions here), whereas Darren looked at it more from an interoperability and discovery standpoint.
The reality is that we are both probably correct. Either way – I thought that this post by Aaron Skonnard was interesting.