The SOA Magazine

Issue VII, May 2007


Mike Oara Finding Services in the Mainframe
by Mike Oara

It is an accepted fact that legacy applications implicitly contain services which may be exposed to the outside world. However, the identification of such services is not a trivial task. A number of questions must be answered. Should one begin by deriving services from the legacy application, or rather start with all potential services and decide which would fit actual business requirements? Also, if certain services are required, what is the best way to find them within a typical legacy application? And, what is the most suitable degree of granularity at which they should be defined? This article answers such questions and develops a rational and systematic approach for locating and extracting services from legacy environments in support of SOA and service-oriented computing...
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Wayne Ariola Quality Assurance for SOA
Through Process Cadence

by Wayne Ariola

These days, most organizations moving ahead with SOA projects are aware of the fact that traditional design and development approaches will need to undergo some significant changes. Often overlooked, however, are the processes in place for ensuring the ultimate quality of delivered service-oriented solutions. This article explores the concept of "process cadence" as it applies to the modernization of quality assurance in support of SOA. It provides a step-by-step process for realizing process cadence by taking both top-down and bottom-up delivery considerations into account and explores both technological and organizational issues and considerations unique to testing and applying quality assurance to SOA implementations and service-oriented solutions...
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Thomas Erl SOA Principles:
An Introduction to the
Service-Orientation Paradigm

by Thomas Erl

The key to getting the most out of SOA lies within the knowledge of how to create "truly" service-oriented solution logic. That knowledge has been documented as part of the service-orientation design paradigm. As with object-orientation, service-orientation represents a distinct approach to designing solution logic in support of a very specific set of goals. This paper (consisting of book excerpts from "SOA: Principles of Service Design" and published on a separate Web site at www.SOAPrinciples.com) introduces the design principles that comprise the service-orientation design paradigm and further explores various aspects and effects of applying service-orientation in the real world...
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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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