Service-oriented architecture (SOA) tutorial

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) tutorial

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Check out our chapter excerpt of Thomas Erl's SOA: Principles of Service Design, a hands-on manual for service-oriented computing.

Building new revenue streams based on service-oriented architectures (SOA) can be challenging. Not only do you have your typical, environment-specific planning issues to consider, but, generally speaking, the concept of service-oriented architectures is a tricky one to explain to anyone who doesn't have a degree in Web services. This SOA tutorial walks you through some basic SOA terminology and functionality -- to answer the common question, "What is SOA?" It also offers key points to keep in mind when presenting a SOA plan to a customer, and touches on some adoption obstacles to avoid. SOA can bring tangible benefits to your customers, and ultimately your channel business, but only if you're all on the same page.

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This was first published in April 2008