Networking Concepts and Technology: A Designer's Resource

Services on Demand Architecture

Enterprise architects are faced with a wide and often confusing variety of deployment options for configuring corporate applications that are accessed not only by employees but also by customers and business partners. These applications can include legacy mainframe, traditional client-server, Web-based, and other applications. The challenge is to create a unified framework where all these different software technologies can be easily managed, deployed, and universally accessible. Conceptually, all these applications can be considered as services. When a user needs a service, it should be immediately available on demand. A Services on Demand architecture consists of a framework of completely integrated technologies ...