Preface

About This Book

As professionals in the enterprise architecture field, we have observed the recent and spectacular rise of the concept of service-oriented architecture (SOA) with excitement tempered by concern. The new standards-based architectural paradigm promises great advances in interoperability among previously incompatible software applications. In turn, it has the potential to deliver gains in agility and IT cost control. Perhaps most exciting, though, is the potential for SOA to make possible the realization of event-driven architecture (EDA), an approach to enterprise architecture that yields a high level of agility by increasing systems’ awareness and intelligent responses to relevant events.

At the same time, it ...

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