http://www.soamag.com The SOA Magazine is a monthly online publication provided by SOA Systems Inc. and Prentice Hall/PearsonPTR and is officially associated with the "Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl." SOA en-us Copyright 2006-2011, SOA Systems Inc. http://www.soamag.com/I50/0511-1.php In this series of articles we examine the correspondence, synergies and gaps of Service Orientation and The Open Group Architecture Framework. In this first set of articles we go through the phases, methods, iterations, layers, principles and roles. In part II of this article, we continue with governance issues. The part III of this article, we examines how services are architected and developed providing traceability to the business processes. SOA http://www.soamag.com/contributors/bio-fSantas.php#When:05.18.11