Many CTOs argue that SOA is for the big enterprises with huge investments in legacy solo applications. To some extend this arguement is true. However, there is still some room for small and medium size businesses (SMBs) to jump aboard the SOA train and eat some of the fruits of SOA. SMBs can take advantage of SOA design principles by developingt their internal software modules as services components while at the same time staying away from the middleware. The benefits will be a strong tie between the Information System the IT department develops and the business requirements of the company. Thinking in terms of services pushes IT professinals to think like the business professionals .
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I finally made up my mind that it is worth posting something about the difference between SOA and OOP. Some people seems to think that SOA will take over OOP ( off the record). This is not true. The two will continue to life together as i explain below. (more…)