SOA Remains Hard to Define, but Projects on the Rise
January 14, 2008 Dan Burger
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The concept of service oriented architecture (SOA) remains a slippery fish to grasp. For many people, SOA defies an accurate and meaningful description. Some deny that it is anything new. It can be said that it entails new standards-based ways of tying business processes together, another way of saying interoperability, and that is perhaps its most valuable benefit. Not being able to precisely describe it doesn’t stand in the way of people claiming to know it when they see it. Because SOA is thought of so differently depending on the person you ask, the very nature of surveys on this |
