SOA has matured enough now that nearly a hundred design patterns have emerged to help you make a transition to service-orientation. This gentle introduction to design patterns can guide you into sober ...

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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 ...

SOA design patterns can and often should be interdependent. Implement a proper relationship between design patterns in order to make your SOA solution the best that it can be. Design patterns have ...

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 ...

Acknowledging that there is now "more hype than actual work" in the field of SOA, David Linthicum, a prolific author and host of SOA Expert Podcast, offers several patterns of success to think about ...

IBM is billing the software development patterns just published on its developerWorks Web site as the first designed to assist in the creation of service-oriented architectures. The six new patterns, ...

The simplest and most common approach to security for service-oriented architecture (SOA) is to route service requests over a virtual private network (VPN). This provides adequate security for simple, ...