Defining SOA (formerly Re: Introducing the Service Oriented Architectural style, and it's constraints and properties.)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Newcomer, Eric" <[email protected]>
To: "Katia Sycara" <[email protected]>; "Walden Mathews"
<[email protected]>; "dorchard@bea" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 4:13 PM
Subject: RE: Introducing the Service Oriented Architectural style, and it's
constraints and properties.


> There are certainly many definitions of SOA in literature, and many
instantiations in industry.  Gartner has published a case study of a famous
SOA deployment at Credit Suisse that spans 680 services from mainframe to
desktop (and yes it's CORBA based).
>

Please post the URI to a freely viewable version of that Gartner study, if
you know of one.  And if that's not available, is there some other
definitive work
on SOA you could point to, instead of just repeating that there's lots of
stuff
written about it?

Thank you,

Walden