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SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE: DEFINITION, CONCEPTS, AND METHODOLOGIES

To effectively understand how Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) fits into the media industry, a good media integrator has to know exactly what it is. SOA, for some, is not an easy concept to understand. It is hard to find two authors who agree on what SOA is. Many media professionals have probably heard the term bandied around in meeting rooms or trade show floors, and maybe even have a definition of their own that was cobbled together from various marketing snippets overheard at NAB or read in e-mail newsletters. Or maybe they understand SOA backward and forward and are just oh-so-anxious to hear yet another SOA evangelist try to describe it. The awful truth is that ...

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