May 2004
Interview with SOA Systems Founder Thomas Erl:
"Best Practices for Building Service-Oriented Architectures"
Many organizations underestimate the magnitude of adopting service-oriented architecture. Building solutions that incorporate Web services and service-oriented design principles from the ground up requires a significant departure from the manner in which traditional distributed applications have been planned, designed, implemented, and maintained. SOA can challenge an organization on many levels. Service-oriented concepts, for example, demand a new mindset for modeling business process automation. Not only do they introduce new terms and models, they intrinsically promote interoperability and process integration. Additionally, integrating the many underlying technology layers that constitute a contemporary SOA can prove to be a daunting task. The required research, skill set upgrades, development environments, and the inevitable shift in how applications are designed, all impact IT staff, processes, and, of course, budgets...
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Many organizations underestimate the magnitude of adopting service-oriented architecture. Building solutions that incorporate Web services and service-oriented design principles from the ground up requires a significant departure from the manner in which traditional distributed applications have been planned, designed, implemented, and maintained. SOA can challenge an organization on many levels. Service-oriented concepts, for example, demand a new mindset for modeling business process automation. Not only do they introduce new terms and models, they intrinsically promote interoperability and process integration. Additionally, integrating the many underlying technology layers that constitute a contemporary SOA can prove to be a daunting task. The required research, skill set upgrades, development environments, and the inevitable shift in how applications are designed, all impact IT staff, processes, and, of course, budgets...
