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If you ask a CIO or a product manager what architecture they
use, it is likely that you will get an answer like, “We
use J2EE” or “We are a .Net shop”. These architectures
are platform architectures. Participants in platform architectures
typically include: a VM or interpreter and a set of libraries:
Database access (JDBC, ADO)
Directory access (JNDI, Active Directories)
Remote Invocation (RMI, Remoting)
Collections
Etc.
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They provide the
foundation for developing applications and integrating them together.
However, to date, most of the platform architectures have placed
more emphasis on integration within the platform rather than across
platforms.
In 2002, this trend began to change and platform
architectures began releasing service-oriented features for platform-to-platform
integration. This includes JAX-RPC,
JAXM and .Net Remoting with SOAP as the
protocol. Many of the platform architectures now utilize API’s
to wrap the vendor neutral protocols and interfaces introduced
in the SOE.
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