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SOA design patterns, explored in detail

Many organizations' efforts to move to SOA have been mired by organizational issues, by conflicting vendor messages, and by architectures that may amount to little more than Just a Bunch of Web Services. While no two SOA implementations are alike, Thomas Erl author of SOA Design...

Tags: Podcast, Design Pattern, SOA, Thomas Erl, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-02-06

SOA, designed for turbulent times

Up or down economy, time for SOA to prove its mettle by Joe McKendrick

Tags: SOA, Thomas Erl, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Red Hat takes SOA modeling tool concept to open source development

In an attempt to add grease to the skids of SOA adoption, Red Hat has agreed to take a patented concept for a services modeling approach and usher it through an open source community development process before eventually adding it to the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform.Red Hat announced today that...

Tags: SOA architect, SOA, JBoss, Software Development, SOA Governance, Developer Tools, Software Infrastructure, Agile Development, Red Hat, Open Source

Blog posts 2007-07-24

SOA and the bottom line

It is important to budget for "the range of expenses that follow Web services into an enterprise," writes Thomas Erl in his recent book aptly titled Service Oriented Architecture. "Web services are expensive. That is, good Web services require a great deal of work to ensure that they truly are...

Tags: Web service, SOA, Thomas Erl

Blog posts 2005-06-22

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Another sign that SOA and cloud keep drawing closer

More signs that "SOA" and "cloud" are becoming more synonymous: The 2nd International SOA Symposium, to be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands this October also includes a co-located "International Cloud Symposium." As Thomas Erl, event organizer, explains it, the symposium's theme of 'The Future of Cloud Computing'...

Tags: Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-08-05

Eighty-five paths to SOA success

Prentice Hall just announced the release of Thomas Erl's latest work, SOA Design Patterns, the industry's first-ever catalog of design patterns for SOA and Service Orientation. Adoption of these proven patterns should help in addressing the quality and capabilities of SOA efforts. I had the pleasure of...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-01-15

Intel uses SOA to chip away at integration, project management issues

Intel Corporation reports that it has seen a return on investment "in excess of tens of millions of dollars" as a result of its three-year-old SOA effort. Intel gradually moves from custom development to reuse of common services This savings is measured from the...

Tags: Project Management, ROI, SOA, Service, Intel Corp., Chip, Integration, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Roi/Tco, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-12-07

Hooray! 'SOA' voted most 'confusing acronym of the year'

I guess Mrs. Pedrick, my eighth-grade English teacher, would not be happy to hear that I regularly discuss and promote and disseminate the world's most confusing acronym. But alas, 'SOA' has made the top of this year's list from the Global Language Monitor. Not just the top...

Tags: Acronym, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Demystify service orientation and learn how it is transforming distributed computing

The fundamental goal of SOA and service orientation is to produce something with repeatable value, long-term benefit, and inherent flexibility for the strategic good of the organization. The greatest obstacle to achieving this goal is a lack of understanding as to what service orientation, as an industry paradigm,...

Tags: Distributed Computing, Prentice Hall Inc., Service Orientation, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Cloud Computing, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Network Technology, Software, Networking

Book chapters 2007-09-10

'When someone mentions SOA reuse, I cringe'

"When someone mentions the idea of using SOA for reuse, I cringe..." -Harry Pierson, MicrosoftThe assault on the concept of reuse as the value driver for SOA continues. David Chappell, who began publicly questioning assumptions around SOA reuse in an August newsletter article, followed up with a report that hes...

Tags: Harry Pierson, SOA

Blog posts 2006-10-03

The SOA with reach: Web-Oriented Architecture

The SOA with reach: Web-Oriented ArchitectureSOAP vs. REST; not just about the protocol.The choice whether to use REST or SOAP is not just about the protocol, it's also about development tools.REST is simpler than SOAP, but in many development environments creating or consuming SOAP web services is just a...

Tags: SOAP, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Even Microsoft, Simple Object Access Protocol, SOA

Discussion threads 2006-04-02

The SOA with reach: Web-Oriented Architecture

I recently had the pleasure of watching Nick Gall give his take on something he describes as Web-Oriented Architecture or WOA. There are a lot of ways to view Service-Oriented Architecture SOA and this particular lightweight version of SOA is well worth watching. This is because WOA is...

Tags: SOA, Web, WOA

Blog posts 2006-04-01

Some clarity about 'services'

If you're looking for some good working definitions and explanations about what SOA is all about, ServiceOrientation.org is a good place to start.Created by Thomas Erl, author of Service-Oriented Architecture: A Field Guide to Integrating XML & Web Services,the site provides nice brief, to-the-point overviews and some chartsof concepts such...

Tags: SOA, enVision

Blog posts 2005-03-31

Web Services Does Not an SOA Make

What makes Web services so appealing is that, for all intents and purposes, its an exercise in pure democracy. Anyone can be a creator and consumer of Web services. Anyone with a good idea for a new specification can put it out there for review and adoption. You don't need...

Tags: Web service, Web, SOA

Blog posts 2004-11-05