About the White Paper:
Over the last decade we learned how to construct software systems using patterns that adhered to the concepts of object orientation. Now, service orientation requires us to adapt to a new approach to system integration and application development. However, at the moment most of us are still learning about this new technology and so we tend to apply familiar patterns when building Web services-based applications. Applying object-oriented patterns to service-based systems is generally a poor idea, since the scale of a typical object-oriented application (generally within a single enterprise or department) is dwarfed by the scale of a Web services-based application (which may span many enterprises and departments). It is crucial to remember that the use of SOAP and WSDL in our applications does not constitute service orientation. |
