Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Introductions

http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/08/18/soa_explained.html

Article: “Service-Oriented Architecture Explained,” by Sayed Hashimi. Discusses what SOA is, the essentials of SOA, history, key components of SOA, service, message, dynamic discovery, and web services.

Learn About SOA

http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/solutions/soa/overview.mspx

“Learn About Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA),” from Microsoft. Discusses what SOA is, a definition of SOA, why use SOA, who uses SOA, who doesn’t use SOA, what to do before starting SOA, the SOA lifecycle, the benefits of SOA, the challenges associated with SOA, and how an organization can get started with SOA.

What is Service-Oriented Architecture?

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2005/jw-0613-soa.html

Article: "What is Service-Oriented Architecture?" by Raghu R. Kodali. Discusses what SOA is; the characteristics of SOA; why use SOA; the service architecture; SOA infrastructure; SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI; web services (basic profile), J2EE and .NET; quality of services, security; reliability; policy; orchestration; management and benefits.

SOA Definition

http://www.iwaysoftware.com/soa-service-oriented-architecture.html

SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) definition from iWay Software. Discusses what service-oriented architecture is, key platforms, presents a diagram for creating an SOA for integration, and gives a glossary of 32 related terms.

Definition of Service-Oriented Architecture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/service-oriented_architecture

Definition of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) from Wikipedia. Discusses what SOA is, requirements, web services approach to SOA, SOA concepts, SOA definitions, principles, service contracts, web service protocols, Web 2.0, mashups, advanced SOA (SOA 2.0), challenges in SOA adoption, criticisms, SOA and business architecture, and SOA and network management architecture.

Introduction to SOA

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Sample chapter: “Introduction to SOA,” from Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Concepts, Technology and Design, by Thomas Erl (August 2005). Discusses what SOA is, the ideal SOA, the real SOA; understanding SOA, service orientation and web services; and learning how to build SOA with web services.

Introduction to the SOA Business Model

http://www.amazon.com/Service-Oriented-Architecture-SOA-Implementation-Technology/dp/0471768944/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196369104&sr=1-3

Sample chapter: “Introduction to the SOA Business Model,” from Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): A Planning and Implementation Guide for Business and Technology, by Eric A. Marks and Michael Bell (April 2006). Discusses what SOA is, SOA elements, conceptual SOA vision, services, enabling technology, SOA governance and policies, metrics, organizational and behavioral model, behavior and culture, and SOA conceptual, architectural and organizational models.

Understanding Service-Oriented Architecture

http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Service-Oriented-Architectures-Recommendations/dp/140203704X/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196369104&sr=1-5

Sample chapter: “Understanding Service-Oriented Architecture,” from Enterprise Service-Oriented Architectures: Concepts, Challenges, Recommendations, by James McGovern, Oliver Sims, Ashish Jain and Mark Little (April 2006). Discusses SOA concepts, Service-Oriented Architectures, service-based collaboration, the platform, web services, and enterprise IT and web services.

Introducing Service-Oriented Architecture

http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Service-Oriented-Architecture-2005-Second/dp/159059701X/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196369104&sr=1-6

Sample chapter: “Introducing Service-Oriented Architecture,” from Expert Service-Oriented Architecture in C# 2005, by Jeffery Hasan and Mauricio Duran (August 2006). Presents an overview of SOA, and discusses what web services are, and the components of web service architecture.

What Is Service-Oriented Architecture?

http://webservices.xml.com/lpt/a/ws/2003/09/30/soa.html

Article: "What Is Service-Oriented Architecture?" by Hao He. Discusses loose coupling, what SOA is, how SOA works, constraints, stateful service, the Idempotent request, deriving web services from SOA, SOAP web services, SOAP RPC web services, and REST web services.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

http://cio-asia.com/showpage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=5498&pubid=5&issueid=116

Article: "Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)," by Christopher Lindquist. Discusses what SOA is, what a service is, the differences between SOA and web services, how to know when to adopt an SOA strategy, the advantages of SOA (including reuse, increased productivity, and increased agility), advantages of an SOA strategy, how to balance the need for architecture planning in SOA with the need to prove value to the business, how to know which services provide the most value, and how SOA will affect an IT group.

SOA from a Java Developer Perspective

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/01/26/soa-intro.html

Article: “An Introduction to Service-Oriented Architecture from a Java Developer Perspective,” by Debu Panda. Discusses what SOA is, why use SOA, SOA and Java, different layers for service-oriented applications, the service layer, building the service layer in Java, the business process layer, the presentation layer (the data binding problem), and best practices.

Service Oriented Architecture

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Article: "Service Oriented Architecture," by Joydip Kanjilal. Discusses what SOA is, web services, what SOA is based on, what a service is, SOA concepts, what a service provider is, the service customer, the service contract, the service proxy, the service lease, what a message is, the service description, advertising and discovery, the service registry, and the benefits of SOA.