Andy Roberts

Application developers have always been under pressure to develop applications faster, with fewer resources. Recently, this has directed attention to service-oriented architectures (SOAs) because of their promise to provide libraries of reusable services that can be snapped together easily when needed. While SOAs continue to evolve and gain adoption, application developers are also seeing limitations in just how far an SOA can go in delivering development speed at lower cost. SOAs are great at providing libraries of loosely coupled, reusable computing functions, but developers still need to code application infrastructures around these services in order to solve specific business scenarios. To address this problem, many infrastructure vendors have augmented SOAs with abstraction layers such as JavaServer Faces (JSF) that make it possible to write applications in fe... (more)