Larry Cable

Over the past few years the industry has lauded, and users have increasingly adopted, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to the development and deployment of their IT to achieve greater business agility and optimization of the associated development and operating costs. When discussing SOA, much of that discussion normally focuses on either the role and value of a "governance" process to manage the lifecycle of a SOA deployment and the use of a metadata repository to contain and control the artifacts associated with that governance process, or the central role that an enterprise service bus plays in the transformations between, and the routing of invocations, of services. While a governance process and an enterprise service bus may both distinguish SOA from ... (more)