Electricity wholesale market platform company M-co, also called the Marketplace Company, has been on an adventurous journey towards service-orientated achitecture (SOA). It is set to become a web-service enabled organisation, with the aid of internet-based trading system, Comit.
It was inevitable that someone would coin the phrase “enterprise mashup” and SOA analyst Phil Wainewright seems to have got there first. A mashup, for those not at the white-hot centre of Silicon Valley’s latest craze, is a composite web application.
Transforming a puzzling patchwork of disjointed legacy applications to an integrated yet flexible suite may seem a daunting task.
A group of top software vendors recently gathered to unveil a new specification they hope will simplify application development within SOA (services-oriented architecture) environments.
Be tactical, but have a high-level strategy, says BEA CTO