I came across this video-presentation on InfoQ. Mikkel Hippe Brun, Chief Consultant at Danish National IT and Telecom Agency, introduces Denmark's national Service Oriented Infrastructure.
The title of this posting is a bit misleading, because it is not really about SOA in the way we currently define SOA (huh...?); it is about web services. But by all means it is a highly interesting use case Mikkel Hippe Brun is talking about. The Danes have built a public web services infrastructure based on replicated UDDI registries. The architecture is founded on standards based:
- Address Resolution
- Reliable Messaging
- Message Level Security
- Signature
The architectural overview is very well described in this document which can be found among some other interesting architecture documents on their web-site.
I highly recommend watching this presentation and reading the architectural description.
Why? Because this innovative use case shows crystal clear the need for web service technologies - in the current spirit of the age - and how these technologies will change the way we do business. It shows how technology pushes business: you won't get any invoice paid by the Danish government, unless delivered electronically. This is mandated by law. I think this is the ultimate way to drive innovation. Thrilling...!
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