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If no-one can agree what a term means, just stop using it.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:len.bullard@intergraph.com]
> Sent: 10 January 2006 15:04
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: [xml-dev] Will The Real SOA Please Sit Down?
>
> Given the following definitions,
>
> o Which is more wrong than the others.
>
> o Which is the least useful?
>
> "SOA is an architectural paradigm whose goal is to achieve
> loose coupling
> among interacting
> software applications. Applications invoke a series of
> discrete services in
> order to perform
> a certain task. A service is a unit of work done by a service
> provider to
> achieve desired
> end results for a service consumer." Amir Shevat
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8951
>
> (Service-Oriented Architecture) Formerly called a
> "distributed objects"
> architecture, the
> SOA term was coined at the turn of the century as Web services were
> evolving. CORBA and DCOM
> are examples of earlier SOAs. See CORBA, DCOM and Web
> services. - Computer
> Desktop Encyclopedia via Answers.com
>
> "The SOA abstracts and exposes business functions as services
> that connect
> multiple business
> applications in homogeneous or heterogeneous environments."
> Oracle magazine
>
> len
>
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