I listened to Bret Dixon of BEA today at the SOA Executive Forum and came away with a bit of analysis that I found helpful. Bret characterized SOA initiation patterns in a 2x2 matrix where the X-axis ...

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Many organizations' efforts to move to SOA have been mired by organizational issues, by conflicting vendor messages, and by architectures that may amount to little more than Just a Bunch of Web ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

At the SD Best Practices conference, Dan Diephouse of MuleSource gave a talk about Patterns for RESTful SOA. We discussed this subject prior to his talk. While most of the software development world’s ...

A service inventory is a living body of services that individually will need the freedom to evolve independently over time. What we learned when documenting the SOA design pattern catalog is that ...

As the SOA biz begins to become more mature, I'm seeing certain patterns emerging that are separating the good versus the bad vendors, and their technology. These are patterns that you should look for ...