Jeff Schneider of MomentumSI, on his blog remarks on what's hot and what's not in SOA.
Discussing REST style services [NOT]
Building REST style services [HOT]
Debating the merits of UDDI [NOT]
Building out your service taxonomy [HOT]
I.T. doing SOA without business alignment [NOT]
Business driven SOA [HOT]
Implementing proprietary mediation tools [NOT]
Implementing standards based, federated mediation tools [HOT]
Designing one-off WSDL's [NOT]
Performing Service Oriented Information Engineering [HOT]
Debating the definition of SOA [NOT]
Creating a strategy and plan to take advantage of SOA [HOT]
Forcing last-gen object oriented methods on a SOA world [NOT]
Updating the SDLC to take advantage of SOA [HOT]
Web 2.0 as a means to create community [NOT]
Web 2.0 as SOA composition strategy [HOT]
SOA product company evangelists [NOT]
War stories from SOA trench
Blogging about SOA [NOT]
Doing SOA [HOT]
Interestingly, Joe McKendrick, prolific SOA Blogger for ZDNet added his own list
Hot: Large vendors buying up specialized SOA vendors (editor's note: IBM buys Webify a good example)
Not: Large vendors creating their own SOA solutions
Hot: Open-source stack (editor's note: WSO2 Tungsten Commercially Supported WS Stack)
Not: Paying retail for software
Hot: Software as a Service
Not: Software without service
Hot: Customized applications
Not: Packaged applications
Hot: Legacy integration
Not: Reinventing the wheel
Hot: ESBs (editor's note: InfoQ ESB Roundup part two discusses this)
Not: ESBs (editor's note: InfoQ ESB Roundup part one)
Hot: WS-Security
Not: WS-AnythingElseThatComplicatesOurLives
Hot: Speculation about the pairing of business process management and SOA
Not: Brad and Angelina — who the heck cares?
Anyone in the InfoQ community want to add to this list?