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Web 2.0, RIAs & SOA - Exclusive Q&A with Gordon Van Huizen

Web 2.0 and RIAs Will Drive the Growth of SOA Middleware Says VP of Products, Progress Software

"When we speak of enterprise mash-ups, composite applications and software as a service (SaaS), it’s easy to forget that you actually need infrastructure behind the user experience to make it happen," says Gordon Van Huizen (pictured) in this exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON Media's SOAWorld Magazine. SOA middleware is among the fastest growing segments of the software industry, Van Huizen notes, adding: "I believe that the increased interest in Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications will drive the growth of middleware faster than EAI did."

OAWorld Magazine: What are the current most intractable barriers to SOA adoption, in your view – are they technical, or related to the nature of the industry?

Gordon Van Huizen: The largest barrier to successful SOA adoption that we see has to do with internal staff training and time. SOA is not simply another development technique—it requires a more holistic organizational approach in order to be successful. This translates into additional need for skills development, clearly defined goals and objectives, as well as managerial understanding and buy-in.

SOAWorld Magazine: Will enterprise IT infrastructures ever be homogenized? Do they need to be?

Van Huizen: There’s a significant distinction to be drawn between homogenization and normalization. IT infrastructure clearly needs to be normalized. Customers—whether internal or external—need be able to see and interact with IT infrastructure in a unified way, even though it may in fact be highly heterogeneous. For example, they need to be able to make a single request and have it take action across a number of otherwise diverse systems. And they need to be able to govern across the infrastructure as if it was a unified whole.

We see our clients today adopting enterprise service bus (ESB) and SOA management technologies to normalize their interactions with backend systems, as well as manage and govern them in a unified way. So homogenization itself doesn’t need to occur in order to obtain the benefits of unification. This is largely what SOA is about.

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