Linking SOA with Ajax

Service-Oriented Architecture or SOA is the enterprise’s offer for their users in attaining interactive, user friendly and highly efficient websites and applications. Different programming languages are being evaluated by different business in order to select the suitable tool for developing an application following SOA.

Although this concept has been discussed extensively for the past few years, developers are still looking for ways to improve SOA as new technology has enabled new applications. Of course, different security risks that are also constantly evolving have affected the development of SOA websites and applications.

Ajax is, naturally, one of those programming languages considered to help in building a website or application with SOA. The client side features of Ajax are remarkable and the server side is slowly being changed by the development community.

As different frameworks are being presented to different developers, the extensive support for Ajax and its websites will always be there. The development of different framework has also expanded the popularity of Ajax as it has helped developers build Ajax based applications without the need of being an efficient JavaScript developer. Because of the interaction that could be provided by Ajax based applications, SOA website and applications is possible.

But being an efficient tool for developing user friendly applications does not guarantee success in SOA, there are some hurdles developers have to go through which are the following:

• Security – Without a doubt, security will always be the first in mind for most developers. SOA websites and applications are not just your daily interactive tools; they are essential for your business and essential for your personal security.

Unfortunately, Ajax has a reputation of being a development technique for eye candy websites. It will provide the interactivity but there have been numerous attacks in different JavaScript and Ajax based website that is too hard to ignore.

• Reusability – SOA is always challenging developers to come up with something new and sharing it to the world and also to their other projects. Reusability of different functions should be enforced in building an efficient SOA application as developers will be constantly pressured to come up with something new.

By recycling some functions, developers will have the ability to port those functions to other projects and maybe share them to the world. Helping developers is never a bad thing and a reusable code is a very big help to the development community. The development time of other applications will also shorten.

• Plug-ins and APIs – In connection with the reusability of some functions, developers should also build websites and applications that could be integrated with different plug-ins and APIs.

Although there will be a team of developers working on an application or website, it is possible that a single function will be left out. Instead of reworking on the code, developers could just integrate their creation with different plug-ins and APIs.

Website updates especially in the interface could also be in the soonest time possible with the help of plug-ins.

SOA is possible with Ajax. But developers have to aim in developing an application that is not only good looking but also safe, has reusable codes and could accept quick updates through plug-ins and APIs.