Service-oriented architecture is an architectural approach to building
software applications as a collection of reusable business services. Interest
in SOA is growing within the business community. To address the need for an
infrastructure to enable the building of service-oriented applications, a new
breed of SOA suites is emerging. Vendors such as Oracle, BEA Systems, and IBM
now provide platforms specifically focused on SOA applications. In
established, complex IT environments with diverse applications - including
legacy applications that are tied together with custom adapters, and business
scenarios that demand extensive partner interaction - the move to SOA may
appear challenging. However, new SOA suites make it easy. We at Sierra
Atlantic decided to review one of them - Oracle SOA Suite.
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