Reusable Services -- Are They Really "Too Hard" to Create?
We seem to have entered into the naysayer zone with respect to service reuse within an SOA. I guess it's to be expected, as being controversial is one of the best ways to get attention in this noisy world of ours. However, I have to strongly question whether you can consider something an SOA if at least some of the services deployed into that SOA are not reusable/reused. Otherwise, we are back to A Bunch Of Services (ABOS) -- yet another layer of technology that might be fun to work on but doesn't really provide the expected business value.
I'm not alone in this view -- for those of you interested in some real world examples of reusable services, I suggest you take a look at Dave Chappell's recent post on the topic...
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