Raghu Anantharangachar

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) refers to an architectural solution that creates an environment in which services, service consumers, and service producers co-exist yet have no dependence on each other. SOA enables an enterprise to increase the loose coupling and the reuse of frequently used software assets. These software assets together with the functionality that they provide are called services in SOA terminology. By nature SOAs are typically applied to solutions with highly volatile requirements. In this article the emphasis will be on how to apply service orientation to solve a problem at the enterprise level and how to decide how much service orientation is "optimal." The word optimal means the point of maximum pay-off for the investment specified and implies that once that optimal point is crossed either the return on investment tends to drop or the retur... (more)

Demystifying SOA - Myths About SOA Web Services Architecture

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) refers to an architectural solution that creates an environment in which services, service consumers, and service producers can coexist, and still have no dependence on each other. SOA enables an enterprise to increase the loose coupling and the reuse of frequently used software assets. These software assets, together with the functionality that they provide, are called services in the SOA terminology. By nature, SOAs are complex and are typically applied to solutions with highly volatile requirements. As SOA concepts are increasingly utilized ... (more)