Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Recommended Approach to SOA

It is the best of times, it is the worst of times, it is the time of service-oriented architecture (SOA), it is a time of traditional development methodologies, it is a time when products have matured, it is a time when products don't exist yet, it is the season of the optimist, it is the season of pessimist. We have endless possibilities in front of us, but we are concerned about being irrelevant. We are going to achieve the state of nirvana, we are going directly the other way—in short, this is a huge opportunity for IT to demonstrate its true value.

Read more about this at http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2005/10/approaches_to_soa.html

Key Learnings - Using EDA to implement the core SOA principle of "loose-coupling"!!!

A lot has been said about how SOA and EDA are unique "architecture styles". It seems like only one or the other architectural prin...