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Exploring the Fundamentals of Architecture and Services in an SOA: Part 3 - Service-Oriented Solutions and Enterprise Architecture

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Overview In the previous two parts in this series, the authors introduced the importance of using architectural techniques when developing service-oriented solutions, discussed the usage of levels of abstraction, introduced the IBM SOA Solution Stack (providing nine separate concerns for considering SOA), placed architecture into the context of the software development process, introduced business architecture, looked at Model-Driven Development (MDD), and considered leveraging existing assets. This paper looks at what makes an IT solution service-oriented. The paper finds out what this looks like in the deployment and runtime views, and talk about various important aspects to taking an enterprise view to SOA.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	HTML
Date Published	January 2008	Downloads	8
Format	White Papers
Topics	Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture

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