Looking at the history of service orientation

First of all, let’s start with a bit of history. it may be because I am an old-timer and have been programming for the past 37 years, with 25 of them in industrial contexts, but I think it is always interesting to know where we are coming from as this explains a lot of what technologies today have been created for, and what they still miss. This way, not only can we anticipate the shortcomings of certain techniques and software artifacts, but we also avoid the risk of not using them to their full potential, as intended by their creators. Unrolling the history of technologies has yet another advantage: while strolling along this path, you may stumble upon an old but still interesting technology that may better fit your context than the new kid on the block. This does not happen so often, but when it does and you can solve your IT problem with a battle-hardened, yet simpler technology than the tools generally used at present, it can...