SOA
Practitioners’ Guide
Part 2
SOA Reference Architecture
Painting by: Surekha Durvasula
Contributing SOA Practitioners
Surekha Durvasula,
Martin Guttmann, Principal Architect, Customer
Solutions Group, Intel Corp
Ashok Kumar, Manager, SOA Architecture, Avis/Budget
Jeffery Lamb,
Tom Mitchell, Lead Technical
Architect, Wells
Burc
Oral, Individual Contributor
Tom Sedlack,
Enterprise Architecture & Engineering, SunTrust Banks, Inc.
Dr Harsh Sharma, Senior Information Architect, MetLife
Sankar Ram Sundaresan, Chief Architect e-Business, HP-IT
Reviewers
Prasanna
Deshmukh, Director of Architecture, WebEx Communications
Noam
Fraenkel, CTO IT, Mercury Interactive
Steve Jones, CTO Application Development Transformation, Capgemini Group
Brenda Michelson, Principal Consultant and Analyst, Elemental
Links, Inc.
Ashok Nair, Management
Systems Analyst, EAI, Information Technology Services,
City of
George
Paolini, Consultant, Georgepaolini.com
Jeff
Pendelton, Executive Director, SOA
Annie Shum,
VP SOA Strategy, BEA
The authors would like to acknowledge the many organizations and individuals that contributed portions of this document, performed substantial editing, or who provided reviews and feedback. In addition, the authors would also like to thank BEA Systems, Inc. for providing the infrastructure and the platform for developing and presenting this guide.
1.3 Benefits
of the SOA Practitioners’ Guide
1.4 SOA
Practitioners’ Guide: Parts
2 SOA
– Reference Architecture
2.2 SOA
Reference Architecture Approach
2.2.1.2 Infrastructure
Architecture
2.2.1.4 Information Architecture
2.2.1.5 Architectures that
Complement SOA
2.2.2 Enterprise
SOA Maturity Model
2.2.2.1 Web Application
Development Stage
2.2.2.2 Develop Composite
Applications
2.2.2.3 Automate Business
Processes