Shone Sadler is chief architect for Q-Link Technologies, a leading business process management platform provider. With more than 17 years of experience in emerging technologies, Shone is considered an authority on application architectures and frequently speaks and writes on the topic.
As technologists today, we face a uniquely challenging paradox. On the one
hand, Web services have created renewed excitement for service-oriented
architectures (SOA) as the answer to common integration problems; on the
other hand, today's application platforms (J2EE & .NET), used to implement
SOA applications, are often deemed overly complex, and a barrier to
widespread SOA adoption. While the primary goal of the industry is to make
the concepts and benefits of SOA mainstream, we must recognize that SOA
itself must evolve to facilitate such widespread adoption. Fundamentally, we
must move from focusing on the integration aspects of SOA (the "band-aid") to
focusing on how to build applications based on the principles of SOA (the
solution); that is, applications that are inherently interoperable. In this
article we discuss how the convergence of several key technolog... (more)
Shone Sadler is chief architect for Q-Link Technologies, a leading business process management platform provider. With more than 17 years of experience in emerging technologies, Shone is considered an authority on application architectures and frequently speaks and writes on the topic.
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