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Checking up on the Standards:
Introducing the Big SOA Grid
by Robert Schneider and Chris Riley
Architects and developers attempting to design, implement, and maintain a Web services-based service-oriented architecture face a bewildering array of standards and specifications. To make matters worse, these guidelines are managed by different standards bodies, and sponsored by an ever-changing array of vendors. Finally, they all continually evolve over time, adding extra complexity to the equation. The Big SOA Grid is our humble attempt at providing a comprehensive, up-to-date snapshot of all the major standards that you need to be aware of when planning or maintaining your service-oriented enterprise...
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Beyond IT:
Exploring the Business Value of SOA
by Richard Tews
SOA has been a prominent topic of discussion in the IT world for years now. But what has raised eyebrows is how hot of a buzzword it has also become in the business communities. As most already know, SOA promises service-orientation, a new paradigm that will make adding new functionality to software as simple as connecting Lego building blocks… relatively speaking of course. The increased levels of agility now in reach with SOA will clearly affect the way organizations conduct business. The key is in understanding how SOA actually contributes business value...
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Software Pipelines Theory:
Understanding and Applying
Concurrent Processing
by Cory Isaacson
The concept of software pipelines was developed as a methodology to enable service-oriented business solutions to implement concurrency while maintaining order of execution priorities and simplicity of application development. In order to effectively apply this methodology, it is helpful to have a solid understanding of its underlying principles. This article focuses on software pipelines law and rules and discusses the challenges and opportunities when they are applied to services-based business applications...
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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
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Issue XVII, April 2008
Relating Master Data Management to SOA
SOA in Healthcare (Part I)
A Program Management Methodology for SOA
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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