Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) stands on the twin pillars of reusability
and interoperability. Any business function that can be reused is an ideal
candidate to be exposed as a service.
A reusable service, until and unless implemented in an interoperable manner,
isn't much use. Web Services standards provide standards-based interfaces for
service description, discovery, and message definitions to invoke such
services. Web Service technology has come a long way to reach
enterprise-grade adoption of the core standards. Nonetheless, the process has
been facilitated by Web Service engine offerings from both the open source
community and product vendors. One of the majors concerns of Web Services
adoption is the performance overhead associated with transmitting and
pro... (more)
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services are being critically
considered by most organizations today in some form or another. The adoption
of SOA and Web services has gained momentum after the standardization of
various aspects such as security, business process coordination, transaction
management, communication protocol, registration and discovery, etc. However,
one notable... (more)
Enterprises have started to realize the value of Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) and have adopted it as a mainstream enterprise IT
architecture. However it's important for enterprises to realize that SOA
presents a significantly different business and technology adoption model
from a management perspective.
Business Service Management (BSM) is an approach to managing and making
visi... (more)
SOA has come a long way from a concept to wide-scale adoption by the
enterprise at multiple layers of IT. SOA implementation at the UI layer is
the latest in SOA adoption trends. SOA has manifested itself in a number of
flavors such as the creation of a rich user experience by using technology
like AJAX (e.g., Google Maps), provisioning value-added services by mashing
up data from multip... (more)
Krishnendu Kunti is a senior technical specialist with the Web Services Center of Excellence at Infosys Technologies, Hyderabad. He has contributed to architecting, design, and testing of Syndeo, an in-house service-oriented platform for enterprise-grade deployment of Web services. His areas of interest are SOA and business execution languages. Currently he is working as a technical lead at a leading financial services company developing data services using SOA.
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