SOA as a Foundation for Applications and Infrastructure
Olin Thompson and P.J. Jakovljevic - May 6, 2005

SOA as a Foundation

While both service oriented architecture (SOA) and traditional enterprise application integration (EAI) cover integration and horizontal application services, SOA goes much further by catering to vertical (business specific) services and presentation services. The latter would become the foundation for a universal desktop for all the Web-based applications of an enterprise, thereby providing a common "look-and-feel" and language transparency across multiple applications. For a detailed discussion of the relationship between SOA, Web services, business process management (BPM), and business process execution language (BPEL), particularly in terms of the complementary nature of Web services and BPM...