Treat "everything" as a "service"

• Issues

  • Knowing how to send a message
  • Knowing the transformations to use
  • Support for multiple document formats
  • Support for multiple protocols: Web Services, MQ, etc
  • Building new interfaces
  • Security, reliability, authentication, etc. etc
  • Handling change: email addresses, connectivity options, etc.

• Benefits

  • Simpler applications
    • Don't need to understand the technology being used
  • More flexibility
    • The technology for a service can change as long as the interface stays the same
  • Centralized control of connectivity
    • Transformations and routing of messages are in a single place