+1. SOA is an approach that incorporates integration aspects from the outset. And in an explicit way.
-Rob --- In [email protected], "Nick Gall" <nick.g...@...> 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). > > -- Nick >
