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What is a Service Orinted Architecture?

Came across a great article that explains quite succinctly what a Service-Oriented Architecture is all about. Read here

Top-Down vs Bottom-up SOA

Excellent post on David Chappell‘s blog The best approach to creating a service-oriented environment is obvious. Start by understanding the business, probably by grasping the most important business processes and determining which applications underlie those processes. Once you’ve figured out the business services that software… Read more »

Microsoft Architectural Resources

Jonathan, one of my colleagues at work sent out the following links to System Architectural Guidance provided by Microsoft. There’s an MSDN Architecture Webcast here and a link to order free Architecture Resources here. The free stuff includes Architect Journal: This quarterly journal is written… Read more »

Gregor Hohpe .. SOA and Drunk Driving ..

Interesting … Happy New Year everybody! Over the holidays I tried to sort out some of my thoughts on Web services, SOA, architectural styles, coupling and all the other good stuff. I started to think about service-oriented architectures as an architectural style and how it… Read more »

The principles of SOA

I came across an interesting article today, that defines what it calls “The principles of SOA” rather elegantly: The business drives the services, and the services drive the technology. Business agility is a fundamental business requirement. A successful SOA is always in flux. Read more… Read more »

An introduction to Web Services

I came across this article this morning: An Introduction to Web Services Architecture and it’s Specifications authored by Luis Felipe Carbrera, Christopher Kurt and Don Box. It makes great reading for anyone working in the Web Services space and is a great reference to point anyone… Read more »

Some EAI Reading

I was doing some research this evening for an article about EAI I’m writing for the Malta Institute of Management Journal and decided to make a list of some interesting websites and articles on EAI I came across. Lots to read if you have the… Read more »