[Blog Post] API Management: The missing link for SOA success
- Sanjiva Weerawarana
- Founder & Director - WSO2
Services: If you build it will they come?
One of the most common anti-patterns of SOA is the one service - one client pattern. That's when the developer who wrote the service also wrote its only client. In that case there's no sharing, no common data, no common authentication and no reuse of any kind. The number one reason for SOA (improving productivity by reusing functionality as services) is gone. Its simply client-server at the cost of having to use interoperable formats like XML, JSON, XML Schema, WSDL and SOAP.
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