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_4

4. Principles – The Structure of Services

Tom Graves¹  

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Tetradian Consulting, Eaglehawk, VIC, Australia

 

Architecture is in part about structure and about the way that the various components fit together within that structure; so it’s easy to see how most current styles of enterprise-architecture would naturally align themselves with a machine-metaphor for the enterprise. In that sense, the nature of architecture itself is part of the problem here.

Yet living entities have their structure too – though we do need to remember that it is a living entity, not a dead machine! So ...