In a Gartner article of December 2nd 2002 title “Predicts 2003: SOA is Changing Software”, Row W. Schulte pointed out “SOA is not a new concept. Computer scientists understood its principles by the mid-1980s when distributed computing and remote procedure calls came to market. However, its use during the 1980s and 1990s was limited to leading-edge projects whose architects had the vision, discipline and money to invest in the initial stages of application development, knowing they would later reap SOA’s rewards of scalability, agility and reuse”  (Schulte, 2002).  This means that Service Oriented Architecture SOA like Common Object Request Broker Architecture CORBA has   been in the market for years now.  (more…)

Recently I gave a presentation at the dining philosophers tech group here shanghai.. The presentation was title “Introduction to SOA“. The agenda was as follows:

• The Evolution of EAI
• What is SOA?
• SOA prerequisite
• An SOA Solution-Services and Composite Applications
• IBM SOA Lifecycle
• SOA Development Process
• The SOA Design Styles and Principles
• Architectural Example1
• Architectural Example2
• The Benefits of SOA
• The Race to SOA by IT gians (IBM, Microsoft, Sun)
• The Future -Light SOA
• Discussion, Q&A

Click here to download “introduction to SOA” presentation. All comments and questions are welcome here. Have fun.