The SOA Magazine

Issue XXXIII, October 2009

Preventing SOA Failures:
A Revealing Interview About Effective
SOA Governance
by Dave Berry and Mike Van Alst

Governance requires collaboration. To make projects successful-SOA projects in particular-governance is an absolute must. We combined a number of common mistakes and remarks from a range of IT architects to illustrate and highlight common and critical governance issues. This article presents these issues in a mock interview with a fictional IT architect. All the examples in the interview are based on real-world experiences...
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Enterprise SOA Governance
in a Product Organization
by Stuart Kerrigan and Richard van Schelven

Transforming an organization and leveraging the possibilities of a service-oriented enterprise approach is a huge challenge. Notwithstanding the organizational impact, businesses find themselves moving away from monolithic applications and start to deal more with ubiquitous services which has huge consequences on IT organizations. Thankfully, there exists an array of literature, websites, articles and books by IT-practitioners dedicated to this subject. Unfortunately however, these resources mostly deal with it from one perspective and that is that of the procuring organizations, i.e. organizations that utilize IT capabilities to deliver on business goals...
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SOA Governance, How Best To Embrace It
Part I: Introduction to Enterprise, IT and
SOA Governance
by Farzin Yashar

With immense projected growth, the Government must modernize its IT systems. Air traffic will double or even triple in the next twenty years, the number of retirees will double throughout the States, infrastructure will boom, the population will skyrocket, and under such pressures, the legacy systems will surely collapse, and if no action is taken, problems will abound. Some government agencies have considered Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as the most effective means to address this dire issue. Moving to SOA, however, entails substantial challenges...
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A Case Study on SOA and Process:
Integrating E-Gov Travel Services with
Federal Agency Financial Systems (Part II)
by Jian "Jeff" Zhong

In part I of the article, I have described the first four steps of an eight-step SOA development methodology with a focus on architecture, design and abstract thought process. In part II, I will continue to discuss the last four steps concentrating on Web service development, deployment, tests and management. I will then benchmark the case study against industry SOA principles, summarize lessons learned from this real world project and finally share with readers about my considerations for future SOA engagement and practices. After reading both parts, readers should have a complete understanding about SOA strategies, tactics and concrete implementations...
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Introducing the SOA Manifesto
by "The SOA Manifesto Working Group"

Following 10 months of on-and-off planning and dialog and the efforts of 17 working group members, the official manifesto for service-oriented architecture and service-orientation was finalized and announced on October 23, 2009 at the 2nd International SOA Symposium in Rotterdam. Visit www.soa-manifesto.org to view the declaration as represented by a set of core values and guiding principles for realizing those values. You can show your support for the SOA Manifesto by registering on this site as a signatory...
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Last month's 2nd International SOA Symposium was a good event, or so I heard. I was there but didn't get a chance to attend any of the sessions due to the fact that I became immersed in a relentless series of SOA Manifesto working group sessions. But the end-result was worth the sacrifice. Myself, along with 16 other members, ended up producing a concise manifesto declaration for SOA and service orientation that I hope will help contribute some clarity and direction to the community.

The announcement of the SOA Manifesto was an appropriate conclusion to an event dedicated to the next generation of service-oriented computing. More so than ever before, the program agenda was focused on proven practices dealing with real world challenges and modern technologies for building and scaling complex services-based solutions.

Of course my favorite part of the show was the "Exorcising the Evil SOA" session I did together with Anne Thomas Manes. With the help of local actors and various sound and lighting effects, Anne, myself and over 120 attendees chanted together repeatedly to purge the industry, once and for all, of the "Evil SOA". This allowed us to be visited by the "Good SOA" whom we interviewed for the remainder of the session.

Photos from the symposium have been posted to the event site. Presentation files from all speakers are coming soon.

- Thomas Erl, Series Editor and Site Editor

Gartner AADI Summit 2009
December 7-9, 2009 • Las Vegas

The theme of this year's Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration (AADI) Summit is "SOA & Cloud Computing in the New Reality". It is the must attend conference on SOA, Cloud Computing and Applications. Speakers include Werner Vogels (President & CTO of Amazon), John Seely Brown (Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center), and Thomas Erl (President of SOA Systems & SOA School).

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SOA Certified Professional Workshops

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The following are upcoming releases in the "Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl":

•  Modern SOA Infrastructure (Q4/2009)
•  SOA with REST (Q1/2010)
•  Next Generation SOA (Q1/2010)
•  SOA with .NET & Azure(Q1/2010)
•  SOA with Java (Q1/2010)
•  SOA Governance (Q2/2010)
•  SOA Security (Q2/2010)
•  SOA and Cloud Computing (Q2/2010)

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