We are in the middle of the book, but journey is far from over yet. So far we covered the three main SOA Frameworks: Service Collaboration (ESB), Service Orchestration (EBF), and Application Business Connector Services (ABCS, or Adapters) and all SOA Patterns associated with them. We also described the role of Enterprise Service Repository (yet another framework, heart of the SOA Governance) in all of these frameworks. This chapter, entirely dedicated to the ABCS layer had no purpose to cover all aspects of Adapters implementation though, but rather how to optimize this layer in order to make all our service-oriented applications in our inventory more intrinsicly interoperable (one of the major SOA characteristics, you remember).

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