Public Comment #2

["Duane Nickull" <dnickull@adobe.com>]

omment from: dahlke@caltrop.de

Name: Frederik Dahlke
Title: Enterprise Architect
Organization: Undisclosed
Regarding Specification:wd-soa-rm-cd1
Regarding Section: 2.2 How is Service Oriented Architecture different?

You write that SOA is different to other approaches to organizing and
understanding
Information Technology assets.

My understanding is that there is a third difference to other approaches
which is standardization. The approach is to standardize and formalize all
aspects of inter application communication. By doing so you are able to
reduce the number of requierd protocol and data transformations
significantly. Furthermore transparency is greatly improved. If widespread
standards are used you are able to integrate, combine or exchange service
providers and implementations easiliy and use tools to analyze and optimize
your service infrastructure. Additionaly, vendor dependencies are reduced.
IMHO this is where the true value of SOA comes from. 


Regards

Frederik Dahlke

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