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This site will help you get started with a service-oriented architecture
(SOA)
using Web services. It features free articles, services, and
product listings that can be used to develop a service-oriented architecture
using Web services.
 | Online articles that
provide an extensive overview of Web services, standards, and
related technologies that can be used in a service-oriented
architecture. There are over 400 pages of free, online articles on
this site.
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| Services to help your organization decide how to use a service-oriented architecture. |
| Product listings to connect you to the vendor sites for each of
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Example enterprise service-oriented architecture
The following diagram is an example of a service-oriented architecture using
Web services. Click on the yellow boxes below to obtain more information on a
subject.
Free Online Tool to Help with SOA Design
We have developed a free online tool to help with design decomposition.
Design decomposition is part of the process of designing a service-oriented
architecture. Go the
DesignDecomposition.com to try this tool.
Getting started
We help prepare organizations for moving to a service-oriented architecture:
| Consulting and customized working sessions on software architecture. This helps you
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| Mentoring on technical issues.
These sessions make it easier for managers and project leads to get
up-to-speed on architectural considerations.
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| Speaking on topics related to advanced software architectures and how such
architectures can be used in organizations. This is a great way to
communicate the value of using various types of software architectures to
larger groups. More... |
Products
Lists of product vendors along with links to their respective sites:
Web services book
Doug Barry has prepared the material on this site. He is also the author of a
book that explains Web services and service-oriented architecture in an
easy-to-understand, a non-technical manner.
More on Doug Barry...
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Web Services and
Service-Oriented Architectures: The Savvy Manager's Guide
by Douglas K. Barry
This is a guide for the manager who wants to capitalize on the wave of change that will occur with Web services and service-oriented architectures. The changes wrought by this technology will require both a grasp of the technology and a way to deal with how these changes will affect the people who build our systems in our organizations. This book covers both issues. Managers at all levels of all organizations must be aware of the changes that are on the horizon and ways to deal with both sets of issues. This is a non-technical book on a technical subject. It assumes no prior knowledge of the technology.
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Description and contents of this
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Latest updates on the specifications
mentioned in this book:
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Stencils so you can create your own
force-field analysis or service-oriented architecture diagrams:
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This book is part of the Savvy Manager's Guide
series. The series is intended to help IT managers deal with technological
change. Doug Barry is also the series editor for this series.
Click here
for more information on this series.
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You might have seen the recent news reports about the collision between U.S. and Russian communication satellites. The U.S. satellite was one of the Iridium satellites. What wasn’t reported and you probably don’t know is that an object database management system (ODBMS) is an important part of the Iridium system. Even though ODBMSs are a [...]
February 13, 2009
I am now also posting on the Cutter Blog. My initial posting is (The Acronym) SOA is (Perhaps) Dead (at Some Companies); Long Live Services. It is a response to Anne Thomas Manes’ SOA is Dead; Long Live Services on her blog at the Burton Group.
January 9, 2009
The typical definition of an atomic task or process is one that cannot be decomposed further. This is vague and subject to interpretation. The Decomposition Matrix on this site uses a specific definition: A task (for business process diagrams) or a process (for data flow diagrams) is atomic if every input relates to every output [...]
December 3, 2008
My last posting referenced the criteria for a well-formed business process diagram mentioned in Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. I am going to expand on their criteria to create a more comprehensive definition of a well-formed business process diagram.
To start, here are three criteria from [...]
November 18, 2008
I recently received two new books on business process modeling. Both books looked interesting because they had great titles. As it turns out, one book is great and the other not so good.
The not so good book is Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. There are [...]
October 9, 2008
The Design Decomposition Blog is written by Doug Barry, who also wrote the
articles on this site that cover Web services,
SOA, and related technologies.
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