Dr. Manas Deb, a senior director at Oracle's Fusion Middleware Group, currently leads strategic engagements operations for Oracle's service-oriented integration solutions. He has worked in the software industry for nearly 20 years, half of which he spent architecting and leading a wide variety of enterprise-level application and business integrations projects. Manas has a PhD in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, as well as an MBA.
In a service-oriented architecture (SOA), a service is a unit of work performed by a service provider to achieve desired results for one or more service consumers. A service provides a function that is well defined, self-contained (for example, loosely coupled to its environment), desc...Dec. 27, 2005 09:15 PM EST Reads: 32,859 Replies: 1
