Foreword by David Chappell
What is SOA? In the dozen or so years that the term has been around, service-oriented architecture has meant lots of different things. Some vendors saw it as a way to sell whatever it was they were offering, and so they jumped on the SOA bandwagon with both feet. Other people interpreted SOA in business terms, viewing it as a way to structure how different parts of an organization interact.
Yet from all of this confusion, one clear fact has emerged: The technology of service-orientation has real value. Whether or not it helps vendors sell products or managers organize their business, taking a service-oriented approach to development can make life better for the people who build and maintain applications.
The core reason ...
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