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As Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiatives attain critical mass in the enterprise, there's more and more interest in boosting business results and competitiveness (not to mention leveraging significant long-term investments) by incorporating mainframe assets into the SOA. However, if this attention is myopically focused on data and functionality, companies may be overlooking the mainframe's highest potential for rapid time-to-market and ROI: the value of the expertise resident with mainframe developers. While they may seem an unlikely resource to deliver SOA net-centric applications, equipping mainframe developers is actually a highly practical and cost-effective alternative to the near-impossible task of trying to infuse Web Services developers with decades of mainframe experience. This article will look at the benefits of fully utilizing the portfolio of m... (more)

Mainframe SOA Best Practice

To ensure the success of your mainframe SOA initiatives, it's important to be able to support both bottom-up and contract-first design approaches. With the former, businesses may see an opportunity to jumpstart the SOA, quickly packaging bite-sized chunks of mainframe code as Web Services, and pushing them out to the rest of the organization to do with them what they will. But experience shows that the contract-first approach - basically, Web Service design informed by business processes - is a "best practice" that will yield optimal results. The Myth and Pitfalls of "Instant SO... (more)