If you mean Web Service when talking about service, I understand what you said. Nevertheless, I stay with my statement. I tried to explane this in one of my latest posts.
Personally, I am in favor of aggregated services rather than composite applications. - Michael ----- Original Message ---- From: Patrick May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 3:40:21 PM Subject: Re: [service-orientated-architecture] Re: Legacy into SOA (was Vandersluis on a Data Abstraction Layer's Benefits) On 29 Jun 2008, at 05:10, Michael Poulin wrote: In this forum, I believe we agreed that SOA and integration are not the same things, and even more - they are opposit things I'll admit to not following some of the more verbose threads on this list in great detail, but I'm not sure how the two concepts are opposites. Services, especially those running in a robust and scalable SOA, provide a useful tool for integration, as shown in my telco example. This is related to the use of services to build composite applications. Regards, Patrick ---- [EMAIL PROTECTED] S P Engineering, Inc. Large scale, mission-critical, distributed OO systems design and implementation. (C++, Java, Common Lisp, Jini, middleware, SOA)
