--- In [email protected], "Steve Jones" <jones.ste...@...> wrote: > > ... > > And integration can be done in many different ways: ad hoc, post > > hoc, a priori. It can be well or poorly architected. It can be > > well governed or poorly. As long as it unites different entities > > to some degree, regardless of the quality of the unification, > > it's integration. So perhaps SOA is a particular way of forming > > parts into a whole? That is, if SOA is anything at all. If it is > > indeed a particular way of forming parts into a whole, then SOA > > is, if not all about integration, then at least a type, way, or > > style of integration (or if you prefer, an approach to > > integration). > > SOA is a way about thinking about systems as services, those > services then need to communicate via the execution context. The > EC is the thing that integrates, that is what the technology does > in SOA.
That seems to be in perfect agreement with what Nick said. Services arranged in a particular fashion, interacting with each other and other components (non-services). -Rob
