The South East Asia SOA Weblog

I remembered a few years back, a friend said to me that in the future people don’t need to type in codes to make computer programs. All they need to do is “click and drag” and voila!, a computer program is born.

This has been a dream of IT, to have a way that really supports Business Agility, having the business people just ‘click here’ and ‘drag here’ in order to get their needs fulfilled.

The closest one to such solution today is a Business Process Management system. Although the concept has been around for a while, we are still far from the dream that business people can compose their own computer program using a very intuitive technology. A BPEL process needs to be instrumented by various connections to WSDLs and XSDs. The back-end systems still need to be developed by brainiacs who speaks Java or .NET. But then again, if there ever comes a day when business people can “compose” their own system (maybe using natural-language voice activated commands), we, the IT people, may be out of job, aren’t we?