Bill Jones

The more widely service-oriented architectures become incorporated into core business applications and processes, the more critical the ability to easily configure, manage, and monitor the overall infrastructure becomes. By their very nature, service-oriented architectures, or SOAs, are about enabling heterogenous, componentized, and distributed applications to work together seamlessly. This presents a number of classic service management challenges such as auditing and logging, security, quality of service guarantees, service-level agreements, service life cycle, and service virtualization. This article examines SOA management features that will become critical as services are widely deployed in mission-critical environments. In addition, I describe the common architectural approaches used to integrate WSM into a service-oriented architecture, as well as emerging s... (more)