1.3 SOA for Web Services, Available Today

   

Web services have bestowed newfound importance on service-oriented architectures by providing a standards-based approach to interoperability between applications. The main objective of web services has been to provide a service abstraction that allows interoperability between applications built using disparate platforms and environments. The achievement of this goal will provide an easier path to pervasive integration between applications.

With the advent of the ESB there is now a way to incorporate web services and SOA into a meaningful architecture for integrating applications and services into a backbone that spans the extended enterprise in a large-scale fashion. An ESB makes web services, XML, and other integration technologies immediately useful with the mature technology that exists today.

The core tenets of SOA are vital to the success of a pervasive integration project, and are already implemented quite thoroughly in the ESB. The web services standards are trending in the right direction, but remain incomplete with respect to the enterprise-grade capabilities such as security, reliability, transaction management, and business process orchestration. The ESB is based on today's established standards in these areas, and has real implementations that are already being deployed across a number of industries. The ESB is quite capable of keeping in step with the ongoing evolution of the web-services equivalents of these capabilities as they mature. Chapter 12 provides a more detailed discussion on this subject.



Enterprise Service Bus
Enterprise Service Bus: Theory in Practice
ISBN: 0596006756
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 126

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