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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Is an integration project merely a matter of connectivity – making n-number of applications transfer data?  By this logic the project’s success is binary: it connected the systems or it did not.  Anyone involved in systems integration at any level understands that what it means to be “connected”, itself, quickly becomes an abstract term with multiple meanings.  Enter in SOA and most have no clue what the goal is.

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