Welcome to the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Resource Center. Start your search here for the latest SOA articles, books, sample chapters, projects, FAQs, conferences and training courses. In the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Resource Center, you'll find links to: - The sample chapter, “Understanding Service-Oriented Architecture,” from Enterprise Service-Oriented Architectures: Concepts, Challenges, Recommendations, by James McGovern, Oliver Sims, Ashish Jain and Mark Little.
- The article, “Service-Oriented Architecture Explained,” by Sayed Hashimi.
- The article, “Service-Oriented Architecture: Six Steps to a Successful SOA,” by Theo Beack.
- Free SOA training courses and webcasts from IBM.
- The sample chapter, “Introduction to the SOA Business Model,” from the book Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): A Planning and Implementation Guide for Business and Technology, by Eric A. Marks and Michael Bell.
- The article, “An Introduction to Service-Oriented Architecture from a Java Developer Perspective,” by Debu Panda.
- The article, "Understand Enterprise Service Bus Scenarios and Solutions in Service-Oriented Architecture," by Rick Robinson.
- The webcast, "The Roll of the Enterprise Service Bus," presented by Mark Richards.
- Article: "SOA Programming Model for Implementing Web Services: Securing Service-Oriented Applications," by Anthony Nadalin, Natarai Nagaratnam, and Maryann Hondo.
- The article: "XML and SOA," by Thomas Erl.
- The SOA Tools Platform (STP) project.
The Swordfish Project (codename for the SOA Runtime Framework)—a proposed open source project. - “SOA Practitioners’ Guide,” from Arch2Arch.
- A series of SOA trends and best practices white papers from BEA.
- The article, “Migrating to a Service-Oriented Architecture,” by Kishore Channabasavaiah, Kerrie Holley and Edward Tuggle, Jr.
- "Service-Oriented Architecture: A Practical Guide to Measuring Return on That Investment," by Jay DiMare and IBM.
- SOA video presentations from the InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum.
- The article, "SOA Certification," by Eric Roch. Discusses the SOA certification programs available from IBM, BEA and ZapThink.
- SOA resource sites from Microsoft, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. SOA books, conferences, FAQs, podcasts and newsgroups.
- And more...
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