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Of all the patterns in the SOA design patterns catalog there is perhaps no other as simple to understand yet as difficult to apply in practice as Canonical Schema. There are also few patterns that ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

If you have seen the term online, think of it as a practical way to build modern software without locking your whole business into one giant codebase.

The benefits of SOA are well documented, but the challenges associated with an enterprise wide SOA deployment are not. While the distributed nature of a SOA encourages reuse and provides a high level ...

Among the ways to keep a service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiative on track, forming a center of excellence (COE) is a frequently named option. Indeed, a recent Forrester survey shows that having ...

Acknowledging that there is now "more hype than actual work" in the field of SOA, David Linthicum, a prolific author and host of SOA Expert Podcast, offers several patterns of success to think about ...