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Chapter 8. Strategic SOA adoption at
Marriott International, Inc.
Up to this point, you have learned one way to use z/TPF in an SOA environment. What follows
is a case study of a customer who, instead of moving away from the TPF4.1 product in
adopting SOA throughout its IT infrastructure, has decided that the assets running on its
TPF4.1 system are critical and have started to expose those assets as Web services. The
details of this customer's efforts differ from what has been described to this point due to the
particular requirements that the customer had on its TPF4.1 system, but the customer's ...