Mark Richards is a director and senior solutions architect at Collaborative Consulting, LLC, where he is involved in the architecture and design of large-scale Service Oriented Architectures in J2EE and other technologies, primarily in the financial services industry. He served as the president of the Boston Java User Group in 1997 and 1998, and the president of the New England Java Users Group from 1999 to 2004. He is the author of several technical books, and speaks at conferences around the country. Prior to joining Collaborative Consulting Mark served as an executive IT architect at IBM with a focus on SOA in the financial services industry.
It's hard to think about service-oriented architecture without thinking of services; after all, services are the main focus of SOA (it's even in the name). If service-oriented architecture is an approach where the business and technical architecture is oriented around services, then wh...Nov. 7, 2008 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,958
