Business agility is the Holy Grail that all enterprises pursue. As a result, technologies that make the integration process smoother and faster are foremost in the minds of all IT executives. The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is one such integration technology that is increasingly gaining more attention from buyers. This note provides information on:

Key Features of an SOA

The following section outlines some of the key technology features that must be present in a true service-oriented architecture implementation.

SOA Defined

In its simplest form, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the process of building scalable distributed systems that treat all software components as services. SOA provides the framework for independent services to interact with each other across a network. This allows a complex distributed system to be assembled quickly and cost-effectively from individual services. SOA is most commonly implemented using Web service technologies.