Chapter 1. SOA Governance

This chapter will introduce the main concepts surrounding SOA Governance and set out the goals and aspirations for the governance effort. We will focus on the key objectives and benefits of an SOA Governance framework and discuss the steps necessary to introduce and enforce such a framework.

SOA Governance overview

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a strategy for constructing business-focused software systems from loosely coupled, interoperable building blocks (called services) that can be combined and re-used quickly, within and between enterprises, to meet business needs.

Oracle defines SOA Governance as an agile and efficient decision and accountability framework, to effectively direct and assist in realizing the ...

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