Oracle SOA Governance 11g Implementation

Preface

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style for distributed computing that promotes the use of discrete software modules, known as services, which interoperate to deliver larger software solutions. The main goal of SOA is to deliver value to the business by bridging the gap between business and IT to maximize business benefits. To do so, SOA architectures adhere to a series of guiding principles such as the ones described in the SOA Manifesto (www.soa-manifesto.org).

Although the potential behind SOA has never been questioned, costly lessons learnt have indicated that, without rigorous governance upfront, the chances of SOA delivering value are remote. Moreover, many concluded that the challenge of implementing SOA does ...