Homework 12, CS510, Fall 2006
Service-Oriented Architectures, Due Friday Noon, Dec. 1, 60 points.

(The same assumptions as those in homework 11.) Suppose you are the Chief Technology Officer of the 500-employee company, Software House, Inc., which builds custom applications for large financial companies. The typical project involves about 30-50 employees. These companies need to integrate new web based applications to their old mainframe legacy applications.

Your President asks you to investigate the potential of adopting Service Oriented Architecture capabilities to cost-effectively perform such integrations.

Use the internet, the USC libraries, and other sources of information to prepare a pro-and-con table of bulleted items summarizing the advantages and difficulties of Service Oriented Architectures in this regard. For each bulleted item, append a referenced quotation from one of your sources substantiating the bulleted item.

Grading criteria will include the number and relevance of the bulleted items, the number and diversity of sources quoted, and the insightfulness of the bulleted points.