Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Republished SOA Reference Architecture

have re-published the SOA Practitioners Guide Part 2: SOA Reference Architecture and this time it is broken down by sections. This has been broken down into section to enable the me or any of the other co-authors to modify and re-publish a particular section of the doc..

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Republished Introduction to Services Lifeycycle

I have re-published the SOA Practitioners Guide Part 3: Introduction to Services Lifecycle and this time it is bvroken down by sections. This has been broken down into section to enable the me or any of the other co-authors to modify and re-publish a particular section of the doc..

Monday, May 07, 2007

Latest SOA Practitioners Guide Presentation

Burc Oral from CellExchange, Inc. and Peter Bostrom from BEA Systems presented the SOA Practitioners Guide at the eGov CoP meeting on May 1st-2nd.

Enterprise SOA Evolution Model

As part of the SOA Practitioners guide, we had published the Enterprise SOA Maturity Model and given that a lot of vendors and forums have already defined or in the process of defining the SOA Maturity Model - this was becoming a point of contention amoung Enterprise Architecture. In order to clarify the position, I though it would be best to take John Schmidt's recommendation and refer to this as the Enterprise SOA Evolution Model. I have gone ahead and made this change at my structured blog and as next steps shall take it to the rest of the practitioners for changing this.

Key Learnings - Using EDA to implement the core SOA principle of "loose-coupling"!!!

A lot has been said about how SOA and EDA are unique "architecture styles". It seems like only one or the other architectural prin...