Building SOA-compliant business logic without programming According to IBM, Gartner, and other industry pundits, SOA applications will usher in a major replacement of the legacy systems that currently power organizations and commerce around the world. ZapThink, by contrast, ZapThink...sees SOA as an architectural approach that may also extend the value of existing legacy applications.

While SOA architectural components are well understood and available from a variety of vendors, organizations are fundamentally on their own to create the business logic essential introducing an SOA-compliant application. Many organizations experience a Trough of Disillusionment, as business satisfaction with IT declines, after the embracing of SOA actually slows the arrival of the next important application because of the problems associated with conceiving, designing, building, and testing business services.