What are SOA Blueprints?
SOA designers, vendors and users have access to a wealth of abstract guidelines, reference models, descriptions of functional layers and sets of specific standards or software that fulfill SOA requirements. However, often there is a shortage of clear, demonstrable examples of working implementations based on real needs and requirements that can be used as best practices reference, to kickstart implementation projects and to compare implementations. One way to encourage these examples is to supply an architectural “blueprint” – a set of business and functional requirements can be fulfilled by widely acceptable SOA technologies. These blueprints will most likely conform to the SOA reference model but is most tightly constrained by the functional requirements specified by the business problem statement.The purpose of the SOA Adoption Blueprints TC is to develop, circulate, maintain and update a set of example business profiles or “adoption blueprints” to illustrate the practical deploymen
