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A Simpler Approach To SOA -- Web-Oriented Architecture -- InformationWeek

August 22, 2008, 7:23 am
A growing number of companies are finding that lower-visibility Web-oriented architecture (WOA) developments, spawned through grassroots movements, are a better route to the service-oriented architecture. WOA, like SOA, is an architectural approach to system design, though WOA is resource-oriented rather than service-oriented. What's the difference? While the core SOA design unit is a reusable service that fulfills a distinct business function, resource-oriented services are more limited and data-focused. Although some pundits argue that only startups and Web-centric companies are getting behind WOA, IBM WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo has become a champion via Project Zero, IBM's WOA-based framework, now in beta (Additional Corporate Website Information)