Purposive without Foresight

What makes something a service is the way it’s constructed and the way it interacts and is used within a system. - SOA Patterns, p218

....just for the heck of it. SOA has a lot of advantages, but it’s not the solution for every problem. - from the book "SOA Patterns"

If it’s a good fit for your project, don’t feel the need to call it SOA or to overload it with SOA-related technologies....- to be continued

There are many successful deployments of three-tiered solutions.....- to be continued.

It’s important to note that the three-tiered architecture mentioned earlier is a viable architecture. - to be continued.

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