The SOA Magazine

Issue I, September/October 2006


Cyrille Thilloy SOA in the Enterprise:
A Survey of the Technical Landscape

by Cyrille Thilloy

This article is the first in a series exploring the various technologies and options available to an enterprise when establishing a SOA roadmap. It introduces the notion of a SOA infrastructure in the enterprise and enriches it with the models and frameworks currently available to SOA implementers. By describing the typical SOA components and frameworks, it defines the baseline for the enterprise SOA. Subsequent articles will further explore the methodology for SOA governance based on the formal description of the service purposes...
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Satadru Roy SOA Infrastructure:
Mediation and Orchestration

by Satadru Roy

A services development platform such as a Web services runtime stack or an application server may no longer be enough to support the complex infrastructure requirements of a services ecosystem. This is the first of a four-part series in which we'll examine the most common SOA infrastructure requirements, their various degrees of complexity and how organizations can take an incremental approach towards SOA infrastructure software adoption. We begin by covering two categories of SOA infrastructure requirements, mediation and orchestration...
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Nitin Gandhi An SOA Practices Checklist
for Building Implementation Roadmaps

by Nitin Gandhi

It's been well documented how service-oriented computing can help organizations achieve strategic benefits that can ultimately result in streamlined IT environments and increased profit margins. However, to successfully carry out the process of incorporating SOA into an organizational environment requires that various IT groups be coordinated in an effort to adopt SOA in a standardized manner. This is where accepted practices become useful. This article provides a master list of common practices...
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Issue XVIII, May 2008

Enterprise Mashups
Part I: Bringing SOA to the People

Shadow IT: Edge
Applications in a Service-Oriented Enterprise


Issue XVII, April 2008

Relating Master Data Management to SOA

SOA in Healthcare (Part I)

A Program Management Methodology for SOA


Issue XVI, March 2008

Working with SOA and RUP

SOA Engineering Misconceptions

Refactoring Considerations for Service-Enabling Applications

Service-Orientation and Object-Orientation Part II: A Comparison of Design Principles


Issue XV, February 2008

SOA in Government: A Law Enforcement Use Case

Security in SOA - It's the Car, Not the Garage

Integration with Process-Centric Service Composition

Service-Orientation and Object-Orientation Part I: A Comparison of Goals and Concepts


Issue XIV, January 2008

Next-Generation Grid-Enabled SOA: Not Your MOM's Bus

A Strategic Approach to SOA: Using Pilot Projects and Effective Disciplines to Ensure Successful Adoption and Governance

Defining Operational Services: How SOA Can Help Realize a Role-Based Organization


Issue XIII, December 2007

Ten Ways to Identify Services

Services as Web Services: Are We There Yet? How Web Service Technology Stacks Alone Cannot Fulfill the Goals of SOA

SOA Design Patterns: The International Community Review of SOA Patterns and Pattern Languages


Issue XII, November 2007

SOA Pioneers Interview Series: Intel Chief Architect Steve Birkel on SOA Practices and Intel's SOA Adoption

Smart Enough for SOA: Incorporating Enterprise Decision Management into Service Design

Processes as Services: Contract Design for Services that Encapsulate WS-BPEL Process Definitions


Issue XI, October 2007

Checking up on the Standards: Introducing the Big SOA Grid

Beyond IT: Exploring the Business Value of SOA

Software Pipelines Theory: Understanding and Applying Concurrent Processing


Issue X, September 2007

SOA - Ready for Primetime: The Next-Generation, Grid-Enabled Service-Oriented Architecture

SOA Realization through Service Virtualization

SOA and the Importance
of XQuery


Issue IX, Jul/Aug 2007

The Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) and SOA Data Service Layers

SaaS, Composite Applications, and SOA: Understanding their Differences and Making Them Work Together

The Convergence of Service-Orientation and Business Strategy

SOA Methodology: Mainstream Methodology for Service-Oriented Analysis and Design

SOA Glossary: Definitions for SOA and Service-Orientation

Issue VIII, June 2007

Defining Business Services: SOA from a Corporate Perspective

Watch Your SOA Blind Spots: A Checklist for Testing Web Services

Software Pipelines in the Real World: Two SOA Performance Case Studies

Issue VII, May 2007

Finding Services in the Mainframe

Quality Assurance for SOA Through Process Cadence

SOA Principles: An Introduction to the Service-Orientation Paradigm

Issue VI, April 2007

Modernizing the Mainframe for SOA: Considerations for Transforming Mainframe Assets into Services

SOA and Composite Applications

Automated Modeling and Performance Management for Service-Oriented Solutions

Issue V, March 2007

High Performance SOA with Software Pipelines

Essential Components of an SOA Quality Foundation

SOA and the Core Competency Model: A Business Perspective for Realizing Competitive Advantages

Issue IV, February 2007

Service Elicitation:
Defining the Conceptual Service

SOA and EDA: Using
Events to Bridge Decoupled Service Boundaries

SOA and the Emergence
of Business Technology

Issue III, January 2007

AJAX: Bringing SOA
to the Front Lines

Commercializing Services: Web Services Distribution Channels and SOA

Implications of SOA on Business Strategy and Organizational Design

Issue II, Nov/Dec 2006

An SOA Case Study:
Agility in Practice

Business Rules in SOA:
Decision Services and the Centralization of Rules Management

Web Service-Enabling Relational Databases
for SOA


Issue I, Sep/Oct 2006

SOA in the Enterprise:
A Survey of the Technical Landscape

SOA Infrastructure:
Mediation and Orchestration

An SOA Practices Checklist
for Building Implementation Roadmaps

The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl
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