The SOA-storm has tempered down. The extremely enthusiastic opinion-makers are cooling down. The hype is over, and SOA is there to stay. Tools are evolving toward maturity and enterprises are serious in adopting the architectural style of SOA. A new la…
When we, architects, business process modelers, and system designers, finally got our concepts in place, and when the SOA governance is instituted, the runtime platforms are installed in development, test and production environments, and the steering c…
How to obtain high autonomy and low mutual dependencies of the functional entities in an organization with regard to message interaction and service exposure of SOA? In this pattern I’ll describe a model for a federated multi-bus SOA-platform that sati…
Last week Joe McKendrick referred to Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 Hour Rule.An interesting point Gladwell makes is that all people successful in their respective fields all have one thing — just one thing — in common: they have spent at least 10,000…
As we all know SOA is about business and SOA is about technology. A business oriented SOA (organization of well defined and autonomous business service units) needs a technology oriented SOA (modular standards based composition of functional autonomous…
It is going to look like I am collecting the whole SOA-library of Packt Publishing. Not because of any commercial interest or benefit, but because I discovered that their collection is very appealing to me as an IT-architect who realizes that practice …
I am getting addicted to the SOA books of Packt Publishing. Now it is the SOA Cookbook that I’ve been reading with delight. Why with delight? Because, again, the focus is on practical use. The concepts and technologies in the book are challenged agains…
“SOA is, by definition, about achieving business agility through the use of business services. So a SOA business case must describe the benefits in those terms and not in terms of technical goals.”That is what Piet Jan Baarda states in a brilliant arti…