
Issue IX, July/August 2007 (Summer Edition)

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The Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) and SOA Data Service Layers
by David RR Webber

The new OASIS CAM templates standard provides significant technology advances that reduce and spread out data service integration burdens. Furthermore, by providing an open public standard the CAM approach enables industry domains and e-government initiatives to freely share formal business rule sets and transaction use patterns directly in machine processable formats. In this article I explore the progress achieved to-date with CAM and look at opportunities for facilitating SOA data services...
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The Convergence of Service-Orientation and Business Strategy
by William Murray

Where the core competency model focuses on doing things more efficiently than market rivals, a differentiation-based strategy focuses on doing things differently (or doing different things) than market rivals. In this article, we will expand our discussion beyond the core competency model to explore differentiation-based strategy, and consider the linkage between an organization’s strategic posture, and its approach to service-orientation...
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SOA Methodology: A Mainstream Methodology for Service-Oriented Analysis and Design
by Thomas Erl

One of the greatest challenges to carrying out successful SOA projects is in understanding how they should be carried out. Without being able to rely on proven processes and practices, an SOA initiative can turn into a high-risk venture because you simply may not know what to expect. A sound methodology can alleviate this risk by providing a solid foundation from where you can shape a delivery approach that accommodates your goals and requirements while also laying out a path to realizing the benefits of SOA and service-oriented computing...
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SOA Glossary: Definitions for SOA and Service-Orientation Terms

This is a site dedicated to providing a master glossary in support of the books in the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl. Its initial release contains over sixty term definitions with several hundreds more planned in support of the current books and the titles planed for release over the next 18 months...
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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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