Oracle SOA Suite 11g Handbook

CHAPTER 18Tactical Management and Governance

We discussed the overall objectives with SOA in the first part of this book. “Business Agility through Decoupling” was in the book’s opening sentence (SOA is BAD!):

Decoupling through encapsulated, reusable, stand-alone services and events with well-defined interfaces and contracts that are orchestrated together into processes

Reuse of proven assets resulting in shorter time to market, lower development costs, higher quality, and the IT department’s ability to eagerly follow business desires and even ...