RE: Application design & architecture

["Chris Payne" <CPayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is it necessary for a service to cross organizational boundaries for
this method to be called SOA?

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Trevor Perry
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 2:00 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Application design & architecture

A good example.

SOA will encourage you to use an open standard to consume the service.
If 
NTP is used as the means to retrieve the time from any time server, then
you 
are definitely on an SOA track.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Payne"
Subject: RE: Application design & architecture


> >From this point of view, as opposed to building my own atomic clock,
I
> can just connect to a government time server and use NTP to get the
> time, and that is an example of SOA?
>