Gervas Douglas wrote: >For those of you who have not read it, here is an extract from an >interesting blog by Radovan: > ><<There has been some debate in the industry on the differences >between Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Component-Based >Architecture (CBA). Differences between SOA and CBA such fine grained >vs. coarse grained, business vs. IT, or high-level vs. low-level are >probably good observations, but I think the main point lies elsewhere. > >At the end of the day, a component can be as high-level, 'business >level', and of the same 'granularity' as any service. Or a service can >be easily as fine-grained as a component. >CBA and SOA are indeed different as they address very different >issues. If you work with components you work with code; while if you >work with services you use some remote functionality over network >under some contract. > > FYI, this definition of "service" and "component" is the same as that used by Martin Fowler - I posted a link to Fowler's definition to the group a while back.
[FWIW, seems a sensible distinction to me] -- All the best Keith http://keith.harrison-broninski.info Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
