Service-Oriented Development in Workshop

Business needs are continuously evolving that demand that technology and business be loosely coupled so that a change in the business does not mean a delay by weeks or months in the software life cycle.

BEA WebLogic Workshop provides a rich framework and a robust development environment for the development of modularized Web Services, which is a special case of a service. Although BEA does not market Workshop as a truly service-oriented platform, the rich features provided by Workshop, such as code annotation and the simplicity in J2EE development, enable us to write applications along service boundaries rather than technology boundaries. The simplicity in writing J2EE code, due to the loose coupling with the underlying plumbing, enables business developers to be more productive and write business services without becoming J2EE experts.

Java controls that encapsulate business logic as independent, reusable modules can be thought of as services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) world. These are the first steps towards developing a truly service-oriented architecture.