Open SOA Methodology
How do you publish and promote a software engineering methodology? The question has come up today in InforWorld.
It is particularly important for SOA, because the industry is so focussed on specifications and end users just don't know how to use them. It's different for Java, where there are Core J2EE Design Patterns.
The industry standards organizations promote specifications, not methodologies. So the OSOA promotes Service Data Objects but does not have anything on how to use the SDO API.
Also, a methodology is closer to a design pattern. So it evolves over time based on best practices. That means interaction with methodology users and a feedback loop.
The WIKI model already demonstrates how this can be done, so it only requires a Web site, some methodologies, and of course, users to provide feedback.
PJ Murray
CodeFutures Software