Composite services encompassing mainframe transactions, data and application logic is the future of integrating big iron into service-oriented architecture (SOA), says Robert Morris, chief strategy officer, GT Software Inc.
Those who have not heard of composite services for mainframe SOA are not alone as Morris appears to be the only one advocating them, which was what he was doing this week at the annual SHARE mainframe users group conference in Orlando FL. He has an axe to grind because his company markets Ivory Service Architect, a product for creating and deploying mainframe-based Web services. But beyond doing an "Ivory commercial" as he calls it, he was advocating the larger composite services concept.
