ESB, design-time governance, runtime management, and XML security gateways are must-haves for SOA. Or are they?

It doesn't help that the SOA intermediary market is undergoing rapid consolidation as startups seek to expand beyond their niches and larger players offer suites that claim to cover all of an enterprise's service integration needs. In our report, we examine the current state of the four main SOA intermediary product categories--enterprise service bus, design-time governance, runtime management, and XML security gateways--and examine how they overlap and how vendors within each category plan to attain world domination. But no product will eliminate problems unless IT first understands that SOA is a design concept, even though it's often confused with specific technologies and practices, such as middleware and application integration.


For the complete article and report:


Effective SOA Requires Intermediaries


SOURCE: InformationWeek

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