Can ANY failure be traced to the technology itself?

SOA as a concept is age old and dare I say obvious.

SOA as web service/BPEL bindings are technically deficient in many areas. They lack support for standard cross-domain concerns on a distributed level such as alert/logging, trust/credential management and frankly lack of (XA) distributed transactions make the whole solution unusable in many environments where "Compensation" is insufficient.

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