WOA

I recently had the pleasure of watching Nick Gall give his take on something he describes as Web-Oriented Architecture or WOA.  There are a lot of ways to view Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and this particular lightweight version of SOA is well worth watching.  This is because WOA is more of an emerging best practice from the battle-hardened folks building software on the Web than it is from ivory tower architects or the analyst group notebook. This always lends an idea more credence in my book