Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 1. SOA Ecosystem -
Interconnected Principles, Patterns, and
Frameworks
In this chapter, we will discuss how
Service-oriented Architecture
(
SOA
) as a design ap-
proach allows us to achieve certain goals and the characteristics that have to be maintained
to make these benefits feasible. The practical ways of attaining these characteristics are
based on a concrete balance of very well-defined principles, and we will closely look at
each one of them. This balance is maintained in specific areas of relevance and is formed in
a structure of frameworks. Here, we will discuss issues that are frequently encountered
within and across these frameworks, and the common patterns employed as a publicly ap-
proved way of solving these recurring problems. One of the main purposes of this chapter
is to give developers and architects a matrix of the design rules (patterns) in relation to the
corresponding frameworks, all based on SOA principles.
