In the field of software application development, SODA is an acronym for Service-oriented Development Of Applications . The term SODA is said to be coined by the widely-read Gartner research firm.

As of mid-April 2005, there appears to be a realignment towards applications that can be constructed by business analysts via Process Modeling mechanisms [http://blogs.zdnet.com/Research/p=138].

For people charged with software application development, it may be useful to focus on the deliverables expected from a service-oriented architecture-enabled environment. One recent article on this subject is by Miko Matsumura, called [http://www.devx.com/ibm/Article/29318 What s the Big Deal About SOA].

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In the article [http://www.ftponline.com/ea/magazine/fall/features/gvanhuizen/ Don t Let SODA Ruin Your SOA], the author argues that use of a commercially available enterprise service bus product provides the flexibility that organizations rushing to implement in-house SODA solutions would miss. This danger is greater for sites that use an application server, which could diminish flexibility in redeployment and composition of services.

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