Event-Driven Architecture Overview

Event-Driven SOA is Just Part of the EDA story

by Brenda Michelson, Sr. VP and Sr. Consultant, Patricia Seybold Group, February 2, 2006
INTRODUCTION
Service-Oriented Architecture and Event- Driven Architecture

Over the last year, every time we wrote or spoke about service-oriented architecture (SOA), we couldn’t help but include SOA’s interaction with event-driven architecture (EDA). We see, and speak to, two distinct interactions. In the first interaction, the occurrence of an event (a notable thing that happens inside or outside your business) can trigger the invocation of one or many services. Those services may perform simple functions, or entire business processes. This interaction between events and services is commonly referred to as event-driven SOA. We describe this as a style of SOA. Read more: event-driven architecture overview