Dave Linthicum's Podcast Channel« Building a SOA...Make Sure to Focus on Service Design as Part of the Overall Architecture | Main | New Podcast Up There. . .Show 24: Dion Hinchcliffe and the Web 2.0 »
January 10, 2006Building a SOA...Leverage what you have
Embrace your legacy systems. In fact, they may be the majority of services that you leverage within your SOA. This means service-enablement of systems that you would consider old and outdated, but indeed serve a purpose within the business and thus serve a purpose within your SOA. Those who attempt to displace and replace existing systems, just to support new technology, are destined to make their work much more complex and far reaching than it need be.
Posted by davel at 09:31 AM in
| 
Digg This | 
Add to del.icio.us
Careful with this one. There's a lot of over-patched, fragile crap out there in production that needs, at a minimum, to be refactored, or completely redesigned. Service-enabling this stuff may cost more over time than just starting from a clean slate.
Posted by: Bob McIlree at February 10, 2006 11:52 PM
Post a comment
