The Service-Oriented Enterprise: Learn Enterprise Architecture and Its Viable Services

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T. GravesThe Service-Oriented Enterprisehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9189-4_2

2. Basics – Service-Oriented Architecture

Tom Graves¹  

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Tetradian Consulting, Eaglehawk, VIC, Australia

 

To me, a service is literally something that serves a need – hence, a service-oriented architecture is a way to guide the purpose, structure, story, and so on of all those things in the enterprise that serve a need. Yet if we read the existing literature on service-oriented architecture, we’ll usually find much the same as we saw with enterprise architecture: it seems it’s almost all about detail-level IT such as microservices, and very little else. As with enterprise ...