What’s a manifesto anyway?
Manifesto
Main Entry: man·i·fes·to
Pronunciation: \ˌma-nə-ˈfes-(ˌ)tō\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural man·i·fes·tos or man·i·fes·toes
Etymology: Italian, denunciation, manifest, from manifestare to manifest, from Latin, from manifestus
Date: 1620
: a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer
source:http://www.merriam-webster.com
Basically, one day a few guys (or one guy sometimes) decide it’s time for them to take action.
They sit down together and put down on paper a set of rules about the subject of their choice and when they’re done, they have a manifesto.
Then, they publish it to the world, and welcome people to follow them : “Who’s with us on this one? Who agree that these are the rules?”
We all knew about the Agile manifesto who is basically a set of rules about Agile that the authors come to value.
We also had the Open Cloud manifesto, to which some big players didn’t sign.
We now have the SOA manifesto .
It was announced at the 2nd International SOA Symposium taking place at the World Trade Center, in Rotterdam, Netherlands on October 23, 2009.
Everybody has different definitions for SOA (Servie Oriented Architecture), so some well respected SOA pioneers/architects/leaders decided it was time to clarify it once and for all.
And here you go, we now have a proper manifesto in due form.
It looks quite similar (in form not in content) to the Agile manifesto, and for some reason, in both there are 17 signatories.
If someone can explain me why, I’d be happy to hear about it.
There is also a video of the announcement:
What do you think the next manifesto will be about?
