Event-Driven Architecture: How SOA Enables the Real-Time Enterprise

Chapter 5The SOA-EDA Connection

Getting Real

The time has come to get real. Having familiarized ourselves with the definition of event-driven architecture (EDA), the characteristics of its components, its potential, and the essential makeup of Web services, the likely building blocks of EDA, we are finally ready to delve into the “how-to” of EDA. For the purpose of this book, we focus on building an EDA using a service-oriented architecture (SOA) as the foundation. Although there are many other ways to create an EDA, keeping the focus on SOA gives you insight into a real-world approach to EDA that is being practiced today. In fact, building an EDA in this fashion could be viewed as a specialized, mature form of SOA because many of ...