SOA: Refactoring Mainframe Applications into Dynamic Web Applications, Part 1
By refactoring your mainframe applications into Web services you separate presentation from logic, and gain the ability to reuse mainframe data in Web applications. This two-part article describes the complete process.
by Jeff Hanson
March 11, 2005
large number of developers (and managers) have heard of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and are familiar with the idea in principle, but have no idea about how to go about applying it to a particular system. This article begins a two-part series discussing how to refactor mainframe routines using service-oriented techniques into deployable services and make the framework available via the Web.
First, you need to understand some fundamental concepts surrounding SOA.
Introducing SOA
You should follow several SOA principles to gain the benefits of heterogeneous message handling, service reuse, etc. Here's a description of the main SOA principles:
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large number of developers (and managers) have heard of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and are familiar with the idea in principle, but have no idea about how to go about applying it to a particular system. This article begins a two-part series discussing how to refactor mainframe routines using service-oriented techniques into deployable services and make the framework available via the Web.
