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CHAPTER ELEVEN
In today's business environment, your application
infrastructure must keep pace with shifting business
requirements and be able to absorb new business part-
ners and products. Over the years, companies have
adopted different computing architectures designed to
allow for distributed processing, programming lan-
guages designed to run on any platform, and a range of
products designed to provide better and faster integra-
tion of applications. In many cases, these steps are no
longer enough to provide businesses with the agility
they require.
In response, companies are adopting
Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA)
, a design methodology for software that
promises agility to quickly adapt their applications to the
changing needs of the business through reusable services.
SOA has been around for a long time, but it has been used in
production only in the past two to three years. Today, nearly
every sizable organization has either implemented some
form of SOA or has plans to in the near future.
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