Thursday, June 12, 2008

SOA: What are the emerging Challenges?

In a recent interview at SOA News, Brian Nally sat down with Rami Jammour to discuss what’s happening in the world of SOA. Nally asked what some of the emerging quality challenges for SOA were.

Nally responded with two things:

1) Environments are more and more heterogeneous, with many different faces and protocols

So, having said that given that situation, when you talk about quality you have to make sure that your business processes run on top of these heterogeneous environments need to be validated. You need to have a framework that is flexible enough to drive your process and drive your testing activities across these different heterogeneous environments.

2) People became more familiar with the processes, they began to look at the end processes.

So, they start to ask, what about my legacy applications, or the mainframes, or the green screen? They look more at what kind of framework can give them the flexibility so it can be extended to help them with all these specific needs that they have. Having a framework that is extensible and that can support some of the common things that people do is becoming more and more critical.

What do you personally seee as the emerging challenges for SOA?

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