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Service-Oriented Architectures have been proposed as a replacement for the more established Distributed Object Architectures as a way of developing loosely-coupled distributed systems. While superficially similar, we argue that the two approaches exhibit a number of subtle differences that, taken together, lead to significant differences in terms of their large-scale software engineering properties such as the granularity of service, ease of composition and differentiation – properties that have a significant impact on the design and evolution of enterprise-scale systems. We further argue that some features of distributed objects are actually crucial to the integration tasks targeted by service-oriented architectures.
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Baker, S., Dobson, S. (2005). Comparing Service-Oriented and Distributed Object Architectures. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE. OTM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3760. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11575771_40
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