Reuse Engineering for SOA

An anonymous reader writes "In most development organizations, software reuse occurs on a regular basis in at least an ad hoc manner. Code is shared across projects in an informal manner. SOA provides the mechanism for more formal reuse. So what are the issues? This article examines some of the challenges associated with the creation and usage of reusable services."

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Re:Software reuse.

[cpn2000]

I agree that code re-use within organizations is over-rated, but code re-use in the broader scheme of things is absolutely there, and growing. Over the years of doing server-side Java programming, I have come to increasingly rely on the various apache (and other such Open Source) projects to provide everything from XML parsers, to IDEs.

On the other hand code re-use within organizations is rare, but I think that is mostly a process issue, not a technology one. In my experience product development companies have much better processes to foster such re-use, while non-software companies, where the IT division is more a necessary evil, rather than an asset, do not.