I agree, it is overused, but far too many people don't understand SOA and automatically equate it to web services (which is only part of SOA).

>>Think of it as ASP.NET MVC is a comptitor to WebForms. WPF is a competitor to WinForms. WCF is used for inter-component communication (think named pipes, web services, etc).
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>I'd prefer to think of WCF as being used for inter-services communications in a SOA ... kind of like SOA glue.
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>"Components" is an over-used term. <g>
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>~~Bonnie