The Future of Content Delivery: Services-Oriented Architectures now Available
February 28, 2004
The article I was researching and writing for Transform Magazine is now available online. To quote from the lead:
Approaches to software development come and go. Today’s dominant approach gives way to the hot, emerging trend, and the cycle then repeats itself. When the dust settles, organizations still have much hard work left to make their systems and applications productive and efficient.
Web services, or, more broadly, service-oriented architectures (SOAs), are quickly becoming the dominant approach to software development and integration. SOAs are best understood as a method for integrating software as services, with networked software and content made available through standardized, XML-based mechanisms. In this approach, a software service can be easily and openly integrated with other services. As an example, you could flexibly tap into a software service that provides currency conversion, another one that translates text into other languages and another one that converts a document from one format to another.
The appeal of SOAs is consistent with the broader momentum toward the loose coupling of applications and data. As more organizations move content and applications out to the Web, software developers are pressed to find rapid, efficient means of bringing content and applications to the very thin client provided by browsers. Just as XML gave developers an open means of data transfer between applications, SOAs are giving developers an open means of having software communicate with and control other software over the Internet.
Posted by Bill Trippe at February 28, 2004 3:37 PM
