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A service inventory is a living body of services that individually will need the freedom to evolve independently over time. What we learned when documenting the SOA design pattern catalog is that ...

Of all the patterns in the SOA design patterns catalog there is perhaps no other as simple to understand yet as difficult to apply in practice as Canonical Schema. There are also few patterns that ...

Many organizations' efforts to move to SOA have been mired by organizational issues, by conflicting vendor messages, and by architectures that may amount to little more than Just a Bunch of Web ...

The benefits of SOA are well documented, but the challenges associated with an enterprise wide SOA deployment are not. While the distributed nature of a SOA encourages reuse and provides a high level ...

Thomas Rischbeck, a contributor to Thomas Erl's SOA Design Patterns, wants to clear the air on some of the confusion and controversy that has been associated with enterprise service buses (ESBs). From ...

Remember methodologies and CASE tools? They were procedures and approaches for designing and building information systems, typically using structured and object-oriented design techniques. This was ...