Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation

SOA with P2P

As stated earlier, one of the biggest challenges with the SOA approach is knowing how to deploy services. For example, when designing a solution, should you take the more traditional n-tier (DNA) approach with a middle tier, should the services be implemented in a more distributed approach where each service is a completely independent entity on the network, or should the approach be somewhere between those two extremes? Although SOA does not impose any technologies, platforms, and protocols, traditionally we treat the various entities involved, such as the service provider, consumer, service broker, and so on, as separate from each other. A better approach would be to treat these roles as different aspects for the services as opposed ...