Canada on Rails: Joe O'Brian

Sorry fighting with apache during this talk so not quite as good notes as the last talk

Joe O’Brian on SOA

• clear your mind
• SOA is a pattern
• Rails not going to hide HTTP/HTML. Understand the underlying stuff

better than ASP/java guys.

• Let’s not rebuild everything (working with legacy stuff)
• working with legacy stuff
• Rails is agile (see picture)
• able to respond to change
• Well defined interface
• sometimes must use SOAP.
• idea of magically discovering service. Forget that.
• must be context free.
• XML is not evil.

I don’t know what the heck this guy was talking about except maybe “SOA is this idea you can use”