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Focus on the "A" in SOA

Thu, 04 May 2006 13:00:00 EDT

For decades, IT professionals have put up with the headaches of managing a complex and rigid enterprise architecture that has become a Petri dish for the too-familiar misalignment between IT and the business. Enter service-oriented architecture (SOA), which promises to create applications composed of modular software components that are interconnected through well-defined, open Web service standards. Just as companies moved from mainframe to client-server, so must IT move from monolithic applications to a matrix of loosely coupled Web services that enable the composition and recomposition of business processes.

Effective Web Services

Mon, 03 Dec 2001 00:00:00 EST

Reusable software components - when properly built, promoted, and tracked - deliver an enormously productive alternative to traditional 'built-from-scratch' application development. The benefits are real, tangible, and ultimately reflected in the bottom line for those organizations with the wisdom to recognize software reuse as an adaptation of the same concept that made Henry Ford famous and very, very rich. Web services, when held to the same standards of construction, promotion, and tracking, offer the same benefits. The advantages of component-based development (CBD) apply equally to service-based development (SBD) - better, faster, cheaper creation of software solutions.

Outsourcing Development One Bean at a Time

Sat, 01 May 1999 00:00:00 EDT

The JavaBean component model presents entirely new ways of developing software. Once a component interface is specified, the actual implementation can be accomplished by another programmer down the hall, across the country or anywhere in the world. This allows outsourcing of software development at the component level.