Rourke McNamara

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) promises to reduce the amount of new code required to create new applications by allowing the reuse of existing services. To get significant benefit from SOA, an organization must have as many services exposed as possible at as broad a level as possible. Those services will be very expensive to manage if they are all written from the ground up and don't build on a common framework for communication, deployment, and management. Civil engineers don't build an office tower with independent plumbing, electricity, and insulation for each office. Services shouldn't be built that way either. Development organizations need to respond more quickly to changing market requirements in today's ultra-fast-paced business world. SOA promises to help those IT departments drastically shorten the development time for new initiatives while increasing... (more)