SOA AS THE ÜBER-CONTAINER PART II
In my last blog entry I posited that an intuitive way to think of SOA was as the über-container; an Enterprise Wide, virtual container, in which all our business applications run. This über-container would provide infrastructure services to provide for all the housekeeping necessities that are not actually related to the business purpose at hand: from managing security requirements (authorization, authentication, encryption etc.) through reporting on performance and availability characteristics – all the things we would expect to be able to leverage from a well written local container (like the .NET CLR or the J2EE environment) but applied universally across the enterprise without regard to platform or language.
Assuming for a moment that you buy into this concept, what can we infer about this über-container’s capabilities? Well, for a start communication is a prime example...