A Comparison of Binding Technologies for Multi-Channel Access.

Organisations have more reasons than ever to consider reengineering their existing systems so that they can be accessed by heterogeneous devices, such as mobile devices or desktops. One way to accomplish this is to use a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Native language calls can be used instead of protocol based messaging to improve the performance of an SOA business process but this may affect the agility of the system. This paper introduces a study to investigate the agility/performance trade-off of using native language calls in a business process by comparing them against protocol based messaging in a system reengineering scenario.