A lot has been said lately about service-oriented architecture (SOA). Still, I would like to take a look at another angle of SOA adoption in the light of the current economic turmoil.

SOA adoption has many layers: the basic enterprise service bus (ESB) infrastructure, business process management (BPM) workflow tools, other SOA-related tools, such as BAM (business activity monitoring) or business rules engine (BRE), and SOA governance -- both runtime and design time.