Service-oriented Integration (SOI)
During the 1990's enterprises invested huge amounts of money on middleware. At first the primary driver for this growth was distributed computing. Later the Internet boom of the late 90's drove demand even further as global organizations and start-ups embraced the Web for global communications and commerce.
Today large organizations are seeking ways to take costs out of IT operations and untangle the complexity of IT. One approach is to replace legacy environments with lower cost alternatives such as J2EE. This approach could potentially reduce the cost and complexity of IT, but a "rip and replace" approach is difficult to execute and risky if production applications are replaced with unproven code.
Where does that leave the cost strained enterprise IT organization? If executives know that they have to make the various pieces of the enterprise work together, to improve corporate performance. At the same time, they must make corporate infrastructure less complex, with fewer platforms and more standardization.
Service-oriented Integration (SOI) has emerged to address the challenge of making different pieces of an enterprise work together, while making corporate infrastructure less complex with fewer platforms and more standardization. Unlike the "rip and replace approach" service-oriented integration fulfills the need to utilize functionality in existing applications to support innovation. Service-oriented Integration addresses this requirement by encapsulating functionality and exposing it through standard interfaces. The resulting services can then be easily consumed by new applications.
Businesses own aging applications that are still useful but can't be re-used since they lack modern interfaces. This presents a challenge to IT organizations needing to adapt to new user communities and access methods, such as the Internet.
Service-oriented integration addresses these problems by enabling IT organizations to offer the functionality in existing applications as reusable services.
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