Chapter 2SOA: The Building Blocks of EDA

Making You an Offer You Can’t Understand

By now, you have a good general sense of what an EDA is, how it works, and what’s getting in the way of its realization. The good news is that help is on the way. Service-oriented architecture (SOA), the broad move toward the use of standards for system integration, offers a true path to the kind of dynamic, implicit EDA that we seek. If our current enterprise architecture is the spilled milk, SOA is the “mop.”

Of course, getting from here to there is not so easy. The whole subject of SOA brings to mind the classic joke about what you get when you cross a lawyer with a mob guy: someone who makes you an offer you can’t understand... Yes, SOA is truly a ...

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