The Benefits of a Service-Oriented Architecture

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By Michael Stevens A service-oriented architecture has services that developers create in a service layer. The services that they develop have published interfaces. These interfaces support a distinct business domain. Organizations that focus their development effort around the creation of services, will realize many benefits. The most common scenario for development organizations is to have some experience with component-based development. The use of application servers such as J2EE or...n

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