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Cliff Leach outlines the key challenges in making EAI projects successful.

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Back in the real world

Moving on from this high-level summary to the implications of the EAI/SOA strategy in the real world of commercial systems, EAI and SOA are very strong architectures – they give robust, flexible and open solutions to multi-application, multi-datasource situations. They are strongly founded on sound principles of computer science and they are well-supported by the tools and methods needed to deliver them – yet their adoption is very slow despite the proven major benefits associated with them.

Why is this? The headlines below summarise the key reasons why:

1. Scope definition. The key issue with an architecture is that its principles will apply to a complete systems domain. The implication of this is:

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