Simon Says SOA

Enterprise Architecture Frameworks teach us about layers. With the introduction of SOA, should we revisit what we learned?  In my recent post about “Layers” and “Patterns”, I was trying to argue the importance of “Services” and their role (as not the only player) in an SOA.  With that said, I am being reminded of a diagram I used to see describing Enterprise Architecture Frameworks by decomposing an organization into “Layers”.

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Pattern-Oriented development is paramount in IT.  Patterns are used for designing software [POSA], integrating applications [EIP] or building enterprise systems [PEAA].  They make us feel comfortable that are our solution in the end will be extensible, reusable and hopefully along the way we managed avoiding some age-old pitfalls.

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