Pro WCF 4: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation, Second Edition

Chapter 2. What's New in WCF 4

Reusability is the key to success in a distributed environment. Most of the architecture focuses on the way to maximize the components' usage in an easy and efficient manner. Most components are built on an object-oriented paradigm that also provides reuse in terms of encapsulating the state (data) and behavior (function) in a container called a class. In Chapter 1, we discussed flaws in object-oriented architecture that mandate the need of loosely coupled SOA. Services compose a distributed system that can be loosely coupled to achieve a particular business goal. These services can later be composed differently to achieve a different business goal. Today, more and more work is being distributed, and the code that ...