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

by Tom Graves
March 2023
Intermediate to advanced
242 pages
4h 34m
English
Apress
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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  
(1)
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 ...

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