SOA and Its Impact on EAI and On-Demand

And how it's all tied up with Web Services

Aug. 17, 2005 12:00 PM

Essential Attributes of Well-Engineered Software
Whether your business organization is in the process of migrating to an SOA or plans to incorporate an SOA to achieve on-demand operating environment deliverables, the need for well-engineered software and design is crucial. All well-engineered software and related components have certain characteristics. According to Ian Sommerville, well-engineered software has four essential attributes as shown in Table 1.

What Now?
Just as every end is a new beginning, every beginning has an end. In other words, there will always be numerous avenues made available to us as IT develops. Constantly improving on existing IT assets and building newer and more effective applications will play an important role in serving the focal points of our businesses organizations, and ultimately create more structure, stability, and solidarity. My advice is to take your time, do your homework, understand the value, and then make it real and applicable to your business.

References

Praveen Chhangani. "Creating a Healthy, Optimized Workflow Environment." WebSphere Develop- ers Journal, Volume 3, Issue 10.
Fredrik Carlegren, Angel Luis Diaz, and Tim McCrimmon. "Operating Essentials for an On-Demand Breakthrough." IBM DeveloperWorks, 2004.
Kishore Channabasavaiah and Kerrie Holley. "Migrating to a Service Oriented Architecture." IBM Global Services, and Edward M.Tuggle, Jr., IBM Software Group White Paper, 2004.
Ian Sommerville. "Software Engineering." 5th Edition, 1998.

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About Praveen K. Chhangani
As a certified IBM WebSphere MQ Workflow Specialist, Praveen K. Chhangani is part of Prolifics' specialized team of WebSphere consultants whom IBM calls upon to service its most challenging customer requirements by providing training, custom-ization, administration and configuring, architecture design, development, and deployment of distributed architectures.

Mr. Chhangani has several years of experience and is well rounded as a developer, analyst, adminis-trator and solutions architect. His extensive experience with IBM WebSphere MQ Workflow, WBI Modeler, Monitor and Process Choreography has proven invaluable in a full lifecycle of projects from requirement analysis, pro-cess design and automation, solution design, development to testing and mentoring for clients such as MCI and Principal Financial Group. Praveen K. Chhangani is also an IBM Certified SOA Associate as well as an IBM Certified Business Process Analyst - Webpshere Bisiness Modeler Advanced v6.0.2

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