Developing under a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is different from
traditional development. A large set of business changes will now be funneled
through a relatively small number of enterprise services. An inefficient or
bad build system can impact a greater number of business changes. As services
are exposed to more consumers and so to more potential threats having a
robust and secure development environment is more important than ever.
Centralized role-based control of builds and reporting of build activities is
critical for incorporating a greater number of changes and managing the
security and auditability of Web Services.
Build management is a critical operation for transitioning to an enterprise
application environment modeled on SOA. Achieving a repeatable a... (more)