Evolving existing systems to service-oriented architectures: Perspectives and challenges

John Hutchinson*, Gerald Kotonya, James Walkerdine, Peter Sawyer, Glen Dobson, Victor Onditi

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Abstract

The advent of and growing interest in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) present business leaders with a number of problems. They promise to deliver hitherto unseen business process agility, but at the risk of making investment in existing systems obsolete. The established orthodoxy is that the maintenance problem presented by installed systems is about, finding an acceptable balance between risk involved in evolving the system and benefits offered by the update. SOAs represent a "paradigm-shift" and, as such, present a more complicated problem: how to minimise the risk to their investment (existing software systems) and exploit the benefits of migrating to SOA. We provide a review of a number of approaches that may contribute to a pragmatic strategy for addressing the problem and outline the significant challenges that remain.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2007
PublisherIEEE
Pages896-903
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)0769529240, 9780769529240
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2007
Event2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2007 - Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Duration: 9 Jul 200713 Jul 2007

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2007

Conference

Conference2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2007
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySalt Lake City, UT
Period9/07/0713/07/07

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