According to a new Evans Data Corp. study, enterprise adoption of service-oriented architecture is expected to <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2111378,00.asp?kc=EWNAVEMNL040507EOAD">double over the next two years.</A>

Evans Data's recently released Corporate Development Issues Survey showed that nearly one-fourth of the enterprise-level developers surveyed said they already have SOA environments in place, and another 28 percent plan to do so within the next 24 months. Meanwhile, adoption of ESBs (enterprise service buses), which is currently at 15 percent, will more than double during this same time, according to the survey results.