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Issue XXIV, December 2008


Herbjorn Wilhelmsen The Case for Single-Purpose Services: Understanding the Non-Agnostic Context and a Strategy for Implementation
by Herbjorn Wilhelmsen

Justifying the extra investment for developing a single-purpose service - a service expected to solve only one large business problem - instead of putting the single-purpose logic inside a non-service-oriented application can be challenging. Reuse, the most popular motivation for creating services, will not apply. So where's the business case? Acceptable justifications can include: enabling support for multiple providers, isolating logic from change, centralizing IT-support for a given business process, service composition optimization, and separation of concerns. Although performance is commonly referenced as a reason to not create services, that line of thought is not always valid...
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Kanu Tripathi Message Auditing in Service-Oriented Architecture
by Kanu Tripathi

For many organizations, auditing is a crucial task that needs to be performed on a regular basis to stay on top of various activities and to remain compliant with regulations. This article explores the auditing of messages in a typical service-oriented system implementation. A case is built for having a system for auditing messages, followed by an exploration of the requirements this type of system can address. A candidate architecture and design of the system is the provided, concluding how the original goals can be attained. Finally some examples are given and some caveats are highlighted...
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Raj Balasubramanian REST-Inspired SOA Design Patterns
by Raj Balasubramanian

Historically, the most common means of building services has been via the Web services (WS-*) platform. There has recently been an emerging paradigm of using a simpler services development approach by employing the fundamental principles that makes the Web successful, as embodied within the REST framework. A series of REST-inspired SOA patterns has been developed as candidate patterns for inclusion in the master SOA design patterns catalog. You are invited to review, study, and provide feedback about these patterns...
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SOA Design Patterns SOAPatterns.org - A Community Site
Dedicated to SOA Patterns

by Thomas Erl

A new Web site has been launched dedicated to the on-going development of SOA patterns and the expansion of the master SOA pattern catalog. SOAPatterns.org publishes summarized descriptions of all 85 patterns from the recently released book "SOA Design Patterns" along with 20 candidate patterns that are currently under review and in development. You can join the SOA patterns community by providing feedback and reviews and contributing your own patterns...
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Issue XLIX, 2011

The Integration Between EAI and SOA
- Part I


Driving SOA Governance
- Part II: Operational Considerations


Service Portfolio Management - Part IV


Issue XLVIII, 2011

Driving SOA Governance
- Part I


Empowering the Discipline of Cloud Integration - Part I

Service Portfolio Management - Part III


Issue XLVII, 2011

Creating a Successful Cloud Roadmap

SOA Governance in the Cloud

Service Portfolio Management - Part II

Announcing the Portuguese-
Translated SOA Manifesto &
Annotated SOA Manifesto



Issue XLVI, January 2011

Service Portfolio Management - Part I

Client Virtualization in a Cloud Environment

SOA Pioneers Interview Series: Microsoft and Cloud Computing


Issue XLV, December 2010

Machiavelli's SOA: Toward a Theory of SOA Security

SOA and Information Risk Management

Cloud Computing Basics

Announcing the Chinese-Translated SOA Manifesto & Annotated SOA Manifesto


Issue XLIV, Oct-Nov 2010

Using Extended Enterprise Services to Avoid the IT Pitfalls from the 90s

Cloud Computing Interview Series: Anthony Assi, Naveen Gabrani and Herbjorn Wilhelmsen

SOA Pioneer Interview Series: Toufic Boubez, Dimitri Sirota, and Linda Terlouw

Announcing the Russian-Translated SOA Manifesto & Annotated SOA Manifesto


Issue XLIII, September 2010

SOA Pioneers Interview Series; Art Ligthart, Volker Stiehl, and Stefan Tilkov

Information Security for SOA: Why the Information Security Consultancy Industry Needs a Major Overhaul (PartII)

Modern SOA Methodology and SOA Adoption Using Agile Practices (Part II)

Announcing the Dutch-Translated SOA Manifesto & Annotated SOA Manifesto


Issue XLII, August 2010

Information Security for SOA: Why the Information Security Consultancy Industry Needs a Major Overhaul (Part I)

Modern SOA Methodology and SOA Adoption Using Agile Practices (Part I)

Fluid Services (Part II)

Announcing the French-Translated SOA Manifesto & Annotated SOA Manifesto


Issue XLI, July 2010

Semantic Technologies in Integration and SOA

Fluid Services

Understanding Service Composition,
Part IV: Dealing with Events

Announcing the Spanish-Translated SOA Manifesto & Annotated SOA Manifesto


Issue XL, June 2010

SOA Scorecard

Understanding SOA Governance

Understanding Service Composition, Part III: Dealing With Data


Issue XXXIX, May 2010

Leveraging the Next Generation SOA Ideals for Service Oriented Enterprises (SOEs)

Understanding Service Composition, Part II: Dealing With Identity

Effective Top-Down SOA Management In An Efficient Bottom-Up Agile World
(Part 2)


Issue XXXVIII, April 2010

Effective Top-down SOA Management in an Efficient Bottom-up Agile World (Part 1)

Understanding Service Composition, Part I: Dealing With Workflow Across Services

XML Appliances for Service-Oriented Architectures


Issue XXXVII, March 2010

The Importance of Schema Design in SOA

Understanding Cloud Computing and Cloud-Based Security

SOA with Spring (Part 2)


Issue XXXVI, February 2010

The Building Blocks of SOA

SOA with Spring (Part 1)

SOA Governance - How Best To Embrace it, Part 3: Governance Maturity, Tooling, Vitality and Success Patterns


Issue XXXV, January 2010

Standards Supporting RESTful Services

SOA Governance - How Best To Embrace it, Part 2: Governance Lifecycle

Reporting on the 2nd International SOA Symposium


Issue XXXIV, Nov/Dec 2009

Reporting on the SOA Manifesto: A Meeting of the Minds

Identity Services for SOA

Master Key for Unlocking Enterprise Data

Articulating SOA in the Cloud

The Annotated SOA Manifesto


Issue XXXIII, October 2009

Preventing SOA Failures: A Revealing Interview About Effective SOA Governance

Enterprise SOA Governance in a Product Organization

SOA Governance, How Best To Embrace It Part I: Introduction to Enterprise, IT and SOA Governance

A Case Study on SOA and Process: Integrating E-Gov Travel Services with Federal Agency Financial Systems (Part II)

Introducing the SOA Manifesto


Issue XXXII, September 2009

A Case Study on SOA and Process: Integrating E-Gov Travel Services with Federal Agency Financial Systems (Part I)

Dynamic SOA and BPM

Towards a DoD Service-Oriented Architecture Competency Center: Technology is the Least of Concerns

Consuming Services with WCF


Issue XXXI, August 2009

Viral Data in SOA: An Enterprise Pandemic

RESTful SOA with Open Source

Service Error Content Patterns (Part II)


Issue XXX, July 2009

The Service Engine: Structured Communication using Modern Service Technologies

Service Error Content Patterns (Part I)

An SOA Case Study: Integrating Adobe LiveCycle Forms using JBossWS

1st International Cloud Symposium


Issue XXIX, May/June 2009

SOA and the XML Factor: Designing Service-Oriented Solutions with Extreme XML Compatibility

Principles for Implementing a Service-Oriented Enterprise Architecture

Workflow-Enabled Services with Windows Workflow Foundation

Towards an SOA Manifesto

2nd International SOA Symposium Website Launch


Issue XXVIII, April 2009

Building Reusable Services

What Drives SOA, Business or IT?

A Content Management Migration Framework for SCA

SOA Pattern of the Week Series


Issue XXVII, March 2009

SOA in Healthcare (Part II)

Understanding WS-Policy Part II: Operator Composition Rules and Attachments

A Look at WSDL 2.0

SOA Design Patterns Webcast


Issue XXVI, February 2009

Service Development Lifecycle Controls for Creating a Service Factory

The Rise of Virtual Service Grids

Service Transaction Handling Without WS-AtomicTransaction

Understanding WS-Policy Part I: Policy Structure and Composite Policies

Introducing 20 New SOA Podcasts


Issue XXV, January 2009

What Every Developer Should Know About SOA Governance

Principles and Patterns at the U.S. Department of Defense

Scaling Services with Software Pipelines: A Look at Service Design with the SPOC Methodology

Web Service Contract Versioning Fundamentals Part II: Version Identifiers and Versioning Strategies

Introducing the SOA Pattern of the Week Series


Issue XXIV, December 2008

The Case for Single-Purpose Services: Understanding the Non-Agnostic Context and a Strategy for Implementation

Message Auditing in Service-Oriented Architecture

REST-Inspired SOA Design Patterns

SOAPatterns.org - A Community Site Dedicated to SOA Patterns


Issue XXIII, Oct/Nov 2008

Optimizing the Enterprise for SOA: From Project Management to Program Management to the "Network Organization"

Ten Strategies for Overcoming the Technological Impact of SOA Governance

Defining Business Services in the Telecommunications Industry

Business Process Analysis with SOA: A Case Study

Web Service Contract Versioning Fundamentals Part I: Versioning and Compatibility


Issue XXII, September 2008

Demystifying Data Federation for SOA

The Economics of Service-Orientation: Leveraging the Emerging Services Marketplace

Service-Orientation and Systems of Record: The Northwest Customer Support Example


Issue XXI, August 2008

Enterprise Mashups Part II: Why SOA Architects Should Care

Project-Oriented SOA

SOA Security 101: Patching the Firewall Hole


Issue XX, July 2008

Service-Orientation vs. Object-Orientation: Understanding the Impedance Mismatch

Data Management: The Missing Link in Your SOA Strategy

An SOA Vendor Evaluation Methodology


Issue XIX, June 2008

SOA in the DoD

The Benefits of a Data Abstraction Layer for SOA

SOA Engineering Focal Points


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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