9:15am 4-20-2006

SOA brings business processes at the focal point of enterprise design. In this architectural style Service Orchestration (which represents the parts built for change) provides the means for weaving services (which represent the parts built to last) into business processes. SOA adopters fixated on technology rush into defining services without understanding how the abstractions marry the technology with the business. This bottom-up design leads to ill-defined services and downplays (or neglects altogether) service orchestration, thus leaving the promises of SOA unfulfilled. SOA and Service Orchestration patterns distill expert knowledge to provide a means for framing these problems, articulating the forces at play, and making the tradeoffs explicit. This knowledge will enable participants to craft proper SOA designs and leverage the benefits of this architectural style.