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Case Study – Scalable SOA for an Inmate Banking System

Mark Johnson provides an architectural walk through of a distributed banking application his company developed for correctional facilities located all across the U.S. Mark discusses various challenges his organization faced related to security, distributed data synchronization, caching and configuration. Full Story »

SOA Darwinism & Social BPM - A Fireside Chat with Miko Matsumura

DZone recently sat down with Miko Matsumura, vice president and deputy CTO of SOA products at Software AG webMethods. In this interview, Matsumura describes...

0 replies - 2780 views - 03/31/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

Service Development Lifecycle Controls for Creating a Service Factory

The concept of a software factory describes a practical work-product approach to governing an efficient service factory - a software engineering-based...

0 replies - 921 views - 03/19/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

Designing for SOA Governance

The following is a chapter excerpt from the recently published book "SOA Design Patterns" (Erl et al., ISBN: 0136135161, Prentice Hall, 2009)....

1 replies - 1290 views - 03/18/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

SOA Pattern of the Week (#4): Service Normalization

Thomas Erl (SOASchool.com) and Herbjorn Wilhelmsen, (Objectware), bring you the fourth SOA Pattern of the Week, a series comprised of original content and...

0 replies - 1129 views - 03/04/09 by herbjorn in News

Web Service Contract Versioning Fundamentals Part II: Version Identifiers and Versioning Strategies

There are different ways of versioning service contracts based on policies, priorities, and requirements. This, the second article in a two-part series from...

0 replies - 1228 views - 02/24/09 by Nitin Bharti in News

What Every Developer Should Know About SOA Governance

Governance is often the Achilles Heel of a service-oriented initiative, especially when it comes to how software developers treat their responsibilities in...

3 replies - 2075 views - 02/19/09 by Nitin Bharti in News

Todd Biske on SOA Governance - 'It's About People, Policies and Processes'

DZone had a chance to catch up with Todd Biske, author of the recently published SOA Governance Refcard . In this interview, Todd delves into what exactly...

0 replies - 1768 views - 02/16/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

SOA Patterns Refcard Available - Download Now

SOA patterns describe common architectures, implementations, and their areas of application to help in the planning, implementation, deployment, operation,...

1 replies - 4969 views - 01/04/09 by Jill Tomich in Articles

Business Process Analysis with SOA: A Case Study

Business Process Analysis (BPA) offers matrices that help in drawing a correspondence between business goals and high level services. BPA also helps in...

2 replies - 5805 views - 02/02/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

SOA Pattern of the Week (#3): Domain Inventory

Thomas Erl (SOASchool.com) and Herbjorn Wilhelmsen, (Objectware), bring you the third SOA Pattern of the Week, a series comprised of original content and...

0 replies - 2243 views - 02/05/09 by herbjorn in News

SOA Pattern of the Week (#2): Non-Agnostic Context

Thomas Erl (SOASchool.com) and Herbjorn Wilhelmsen, (Objectware), bring you the second SOA Pattern of the Week, a series comprised of original content and...

0 replies - 1909 views - 01/28/09 by herbjorn in News

Making a Service Catalog Work: 3 Do’s and Don'ts

A couple of years ago many organizations were taking their first steps into the world of SOA. Their main concern was which ESB to choose. After deciding...

0 replies - 2046 views - 01/25/09 by terlouw in News

SOA Pattern of the Week (#1): Service Façade

Thomas Erl (SOASchool.com) and Herbjorn Wilhelmsen, (Objectware), bring you the first SOA Pattern of the Week, a series comprised of original content and...

0 replies - 2299 views - 01/20/09 by herbjorn in News

Executing SOA: An Interview with Robert Laird and Tilak Mitra

Earlier, we reviewed the excellent book Executing SOA: A Practical Guide for the Service Oriented Architect from IBM Press. I recently had the opportunity to...

0 replies - 2211 views - 08/04/08 by Aslam Khan in Articles

Pattern Based Development with Mule 2.0

Are you still working with integration products from one of the typical large integration vendors such as IBM and Tibco and looking for a more lightweight...

9 replies - 14905 views - 05/28/08 by dirksenrademakers in Articles

Web Services with Mule, CXF, and Spring

Since it seems like everything is going the way of SOA and Web Services these days, it's always nice to have some practical examples of how to quickly get a...

3 replies - 21866 views - 07/04/08 by Steve Daskam in Articles

RESTful Web Applications with Subbu Allamaraju

Subbu works at Yahoo! developing standards, patterns and practices for HTTP web languages. In the past, he was a web service and Java developer. He was also...

4 replies - 3662 views - 11/03/08 by Matt Raible in Articles

Interview with Jeff Davis, author of "Open Source SOA" along with a free chapter of the book.

This article represent an interview with Jeff Davis, author of Manning's Open Source SOA, around his book subject and related areas. The book itself is...

2 replies - 5577 views - 08/13/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #1 - Ignoring culture when introducing SOA

Earlier this week Viktor Grgic explained Unclear ownership / Project based funding. This week we’ll continue with #1 - Ignoring culture when introducing...

0 replies - 3819 views - 07/10/08 by rdegroot in Articles

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #2 - Unclear ownership / Project based funding

Last week Viktor Grgic explained the Missing skills en this week we’ll continue with #2 - Unclear ownership / Project based fundingIn the world of standalone...

1 replies - 4229 views - 07/07/08 by Viktor Grgic in Articles

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #3 - Missing skills

Last week Gero Vermaas explained the Incorrectly Applied CDM en this week we’ll continue with #3 - Missing skills Just like any other paradigm, a level of...

0 replies - 2323 views - 06/30/08 by Viktor Grgic in Articles

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #4 - Incorrectly applied Canonical Data Model

Earlier this week Vincent explained the BDUF Pitfall en this week we’ll continue with #4: Incorrectly applied Canonical Data Model (CDM).CDM is one of the...

0 replies - 2884 views - 06/26/08 by gerovermaas in Articles

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #5 - Big Design Up Front

A few days ago Rik de Groot discussed pitfall #6 - which means we've now passed the halfway point of SOA Pitfall countdown! Let's quickly move on to #5.Like...

0 replies - 2561 views - 06/24/08 by vpartington in Articles

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #6 - SOA does not solve complexity automatically

After discussing #7: Incorrect granularity of services , let's move on to #6.In organizations data and functionality/processes are often fragmented, but are...

1 replies - 2376 views - 06/19/08 by rdegroot in Articles

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #7 - Incorrect granularity of services

After discussing #8: Security, let's move on to #7.Incorrect granularity could mean that a service covers too much functionality or too little functionality....

1 replies - 3229 views - 06/17/08 by gerovermaas in Articles

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #8 - Security

Last week Rik de Groot published the #9: Versioning. This week it's time for #8. SOA security is like having a well-protected Middle Ages city, but at the...

0 replies - 2505 views - 06/15/08 by Viktor Grgic in Articles

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #9 - Versioning

Last week we started the Top 10 SOA Pitfalls countdown with #10: NIH syndrome. This week it's time for #9. Version mismatch is one of the growing pains of a...

4 replies - 3703 views - 06/09/08 by rdegroot in Articles

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #10 - Not Invented Here syndrome

At Xebia we are involved in quite a number of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) projects, from small to big. In that capacity we see a lot of good stuff...

0 replies - 5943 views - 06/02/08 by vpartington in News

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: Wrap-up

The Top 10 SOA Pitfalls countdown hit #1 last week with Rik de Groot's post on "Ignoring culture when introducing SOA", time for a...

0 replies - 2541 views - 07/14/08 by gerovermaas in Articles

SOA Security 101: Patching the Firewall Hole

It’s 2008 and it’s become clear that SOA is here to stay. The first to implement are realizing the benefits of an open architecture as well as the...

0 replies - 5285 views - 08/18/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, Author of Manning's SOA Patterns, Shares a Free Chapter

Here is an interview with Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, author of Manning's SOA Patterns, which is an under development book and currently available as an early...

0 replies - 4901 views - 07/24/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Project-Oriented SOA

Projects are the lifeblood of an IT department. Almost everything in IT is measured through a project lens. SOA, due to its global-centric nature, is often...

0 replies - 6460 views - 08/18/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Demystifying Data Federation for SOA

In This article Dain Hansen will unravel the mystery surrounding data federation. What are the essential requirements for a data federation solution? How is...

0 replies - 6671 views - 11/10/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

BPMN to BPEL: Going to Battle With One Hand Tied?

I have been looking at business process modeling and I am a bit puzzled about the connections between the different goals (strategy support, process...

1 replies - 4080 views - 08/11/08 by vambenepe in News

Data Management: The Missing Link in Your SOA Strategy

Abstract: SOA is transforming the IT landscape and redefining the way businesses integrate software applications. Properly deployed and managed, it empowers...

0 replies - 2610 views - 08/05/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Case Study – Scalable SOA for an Inmate Banking System

The vast majority of articles and case studies I have read over the years target the very large enterprise market.  While many of the ideas are sound, the...

0 replies - 6018 views - 02/09/09 by JavaJohnson in Articles

SOA Governance

SOA governance is the combination of people, policies, and processes that an organization leverages to achieve the desired behavior in their SOA adoption...

0 replies - 20913 views - 02/15/09 by RyanLittle in Refcardz

Q&A: Miko Matsumura on the State of SOA

DZone recently sat down with Miko Matsumura, vice president and deputy CTO, SOA products at Software AG webMethods. In this interview, Matsumura discusses SOA...

1 replies - 1963 views - 09/23/08 by Aslam Khan in Articles