(2003-11-04) Udell Soa Pipeline

Jon Udell on the SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) as the DeskTop PipeLine. In the realm of SOA, events are represented in an open XML format and flow through a transparent PipeLine that's open to inspection and subject to intermediation. As a result, Web Services management vendors are able to deliver proxy-based meta-services that watch message flows and relate them to SLAs, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) requirements, or business-activity thresholds. Given the right instrumentation, it's not hard to do these things. And when the event stream is transparent, it's not hard to create the instrumentation.