Most IT practitioners often lose sight of the core principles of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). This white paper is a retelling of the SOA philosophy in an easily understandable and practically applicable way, independent of the actual tools used to implement it.
This paper provides great insight to anyone in IT who is interested in the delivery of systems requiring integration of multiple applications and other components. This includes CIO’s, Chief Architects, Heads of Application Development, Solution Architects, people responsible for end-to-end testing, people responsible for release management and change management, people responsible for application support (because of the complexities of supporting systems spanning multiple distributed components), application developers as well as developers in the integration team.
