On Aug 24, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Robin wrote: > It is true that we quite always don't have the > luxury of homogeneous sytems but to me, SOA is about making > heterogeneous systems communicate in a standard way. > > So interoperability is a requirement for a SOA. It means that SOA is > intrusive in many aspects, it is required to use a standard protocol > and adapt all the applications to that one. > > Without this standard protocol, I have the impression the architecture > looks like EAI back 5 years ago. Every system is using its own > protocol/message representation and it's up to an intermediary system > to do the mediation (Will this brokering intermediary platform remain > manageable over time? And who will pay for its maintenance?)
Needless to say: I couldn't agree more - exactly the point I was trying to make, just phrased better. Stefan -- Stefan Tilkov, http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/ 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/
