WOA stands for Web Oriented Architecture, which combines Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with Representational State Transfer (REST) and World Wide Web technologies. It aims to make machine-to-machine interactions as easy as human-to-machine interactions on the web by leveraging existing web standards like HTTP, HTML, and URIs. The key aspects of WOA are using REST as an architectural style with stateless operations, standard formats like HTML and HTTP, and making applications easily extensible through the composition of other systems.

1. Web Oriented Architecture WOA-at? Aaron Roe Fulkerson @roebot www.mindtouch.com

2. Another @#$^ing Acronym? What dumb*!@ analyst/journo coined this?

5. I’m Co-opting WOA now…

9. Make Machine to Machine Interaction As EASY As Human to Machine Interaction is on the WWW

11. WOA Yields

22. Be a WOA-rrior Photo Credit: “Cayusa” via Flickr

23. Makes You REST-afarian Photo Credit: “Voice of Guyana” via Flickr

24. Aaron Roe Fulkerson @roebot www.mindtouch.com P.S- MindTouch Core is Free like speech and beer. Download Today!