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:: Web Services and SOA News ::
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SOA What?
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Picture an isolated, hardscrabble wilderness. Then imagine the sudden arrival of railroads, the explosive growth of frontier towns and a bustling merchant class. That's the current state of service-oriented architecture (SOA), according to Microsoft software architect Pat Helland.
In a white paper, titled Metropolis, Helland compared SOA to the slow-to-populate American West of the 19th century, where sophisticated cities only emerged after decades of effort. As Helland noted, "people can now easily browse and visit distant applications. ... What is still difficult is to make the data work across different applications." The challenge is to make the data perform in truly interdependent and useful ways. For SOA to live up to its potential to dramatically change the landscape, it must guarantee effective uniformity across the computing geography -- like franchises that guarantee quality delivery whether one lives in Seattle or Savannah.
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[Thursday, February 09, 2006]
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