The emergence of service-oriented frameworks results from the evolution of software development and implementation over the last 20 years. The industry has evolved from monolithic applications and hard to manage client-server solutions and has now discovered that the incremental development of components, enabled via a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), increases the quality of applications, the speed of development of new solutions, and better addresses the requirements of business stakeholders. The concepts embodied in SOA enable an enterprise to integrate its business processes across its lines of business and their supporting information systems. The ability to coordinate the challenges of enterprise-level integration necessitates an architecture to facilitate the modeling and managing of services spanning information, applications, and people.
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