Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst with ZapThink LLC., said the basic concept of Guerrilla SOA was something his firm was already advocating.

“ZapThink has long espoused taking an iterative approach to SOA that focuses on delivering business value with each iteration,” Bloomberg said when asked about the new term. “In many ways, that’s the same approach as Guerrilla SOA.”

However, Bloomberg had a warning for developers thinking of trying the guerrilla style approach.

“If all you’re doing is Guerrilla SOA, without an overall plan and governance in place, then you run the risk of building incompatible or redundant services,” he said. But despite that caveat, he didn’t want to scare coders away from the concept. “By all means, tackle high-value, low risk SOA projects first and build up to more complex ones, as long as they’re part of an iterative roadmap.”

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