Flexibility by Design: Adapting to Changes at Run-Time in SOA Implementations
Courtesy of: Kevin Smith, Senior Technical Director, ManTech International Corporation
Flexibility and agility are two adjectives that we always want associated with the systems, services, and enterprise applications that we build. Business processes and requirements change over time, and we need service consumers and providers to be able to easily adapt to such changes in an enterprise SOA. After all, flexibility and agility are typically "selling points" for SOA and we need to meet these expectations. In practice, adapting to change is very doable, but it can be difficult.
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