Oracle SOA– (S)calable, (O)pen and (A)daptable
Service Oriented Architecture is a win-win solution for organizations today that have an utmost need for modernizing their legacy IT assets to sustain in a competitive world. At the same time the indispensible legacy gamut of applications needs to be retained.
A SOA solution lays down a strongly founded bridge between the old and the new world. It introduces the flexibility of replacing the old systems in future by new systems with much lesser costs to be spent in integration.
Oracle SOA is the most comprehensive suite of products for organizations that are in the process of implementing any enterprise application for integrating the new solution with their heterogeneous environment having legacy applications.
Scalability
IT today relies heavily on scalable solutions that can provide a high performance throughput. Oracle Service Bus, the backbone of Oracle SOA Suite, offers a platform for high volume and mission critical integrations.
Open
Oracle SOA is fundamentally based on “interoperability and open standards” like SOAP, WSDL, BPEL and XML. It utilizes web services that are 'published' by an application so that other applications can 'subscribe' to and use that service, and vice versa. This enables technology and vendor independence.
Adaptable
The applications integrating together in service oriented architecture can work together without relying on custom-coded point to point connections. This enables decoupling and enhances flexibility. The applications can be replaced much faster as compared to an environment which is tightly coupled. Business becomes adaptable to rapid changes and can respond more effectively with lower costs to spend.
Oracle SOA by bringing in a scalable, open and adaptable framework offers best of both worlds. Read on at - http://www.infosys.com/oracle/white-papers/SOA-worlds.pdf
