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SOA offers a change in perspective, a paradigm shift from object oriented to service oriented.As for almost a decade, most of the development is done using Object oriented technologies and that led to tight coupling many a times with vendor specific technologies like CORBA,DCOM or RMI.SOA offers to a new thinking of services rather visualizing in terms of objects which makes it independent of underlying technology. If SOA implementation in an organization is not well thought of,planned and micro-detailed then it may lead to disaster, waste of valuable resources of time and money.SOA may not be a good idea for enterprises which are not too big and complex in their business process and do not depend upon business processes of its suppliers and business partners. For instance, if an organisation which has distributed applications across the differ net geographies then it will be a good idea to implement SOA to integrate various applications to provide one cost effective,scalable an...

With all the hype that SOA has brought to organizations, they have to brainstorm whether this will do any good to their business anyway.The organizations first have to understand that SOA can not be implemented by introduction of certain software products or services but it is an architectural approach which has to analyze existing systems,IT resources,ever changing business processes and requirements and comes up with a set of business aligned services which can cost effectively fit very well for a consistent business functioning for years to come. As discussed in my previous blog , SOA projects can easily be put into red zone if all its constituents are not well planned,managed and executed.A change is like oxygen for an organization and SOA has to help businesses adapt with changing times and technology too changes rapidly beyond our imagination and in these times keeping an IT plan for next ten years for an organization is a daunting task.No matter how smart we think SOA can ta...

It is very important to know your customer's requirements,expectations and improved business processes in advance before starting any analysis and design exercise. A continuous communication with your client is must so that you can understand their business processes very well and should be able to identify problem areas with some concrete solutions in mind. If you have a suggestions related to business processes improvement then get an approval from your client on business requirements as they keep changing all the time.So scope of work is clearly defined to you and your customer with extensive project planning. If a customer does not see any qualitative improvement in complex business processes simplification/replacement with new improved business processes,he is going to make a lot of hue and cry about introducing new technological architecture. An organisation is always interested in synchronisation and improvement of its business process with its customers,suppliers and ...

What are web services? A web service is a business function that is self-contained and operates over the internet. The W3C defined web service as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network". XML is the base for the web services. They communicate using open protocols. Web services are more frequently like Web APIs. These services accessibility can be from internet. A remote system can host these services for different web services. A web service can convert a stand alone / desktop application into a web based / web application. A web services are published or found and utilized through the internet. The web services works on the XML + HTTP platform. Explain each web service technologies - SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, eBXML and JAX pack.

SOA has become a de-facto standard for system development and integration of new with existing legacy solutions running and supporting complex business processes. SOA, as IT world has always a fancy term for any new technology,elaborates to Serivce Oriented Architecture, is not a new term and has been around with emergence of webservices. In order to understand SOA, we must first understand what a   webservice   means, which is sometimes referred as crux of SOA,not always though.A system does not necessarily need to use web services and all related standards to be "service-oriented." For example, some service oriented systems have been implemented using Corba,DCOM,RPC, Jini and REST.A webservice is defined by a set of processes over a network which is a manifestation of some physical entities like databases,devices,programs.