A concise and quick to understand explanation of SOA.

Gives a comprehensive study of the present day scenario in the SOA industry,along with links to other related articles and news on SOA.

A great article covering the basics of SOA and builds good understanding for beginners

Provides answers to naturally arising questions aboutService-Oriented Architecture.

This is the first in a series of papers intended to help better understand the value of a service-oriented architecture (SOA), and to develop a realistic plan for evaluating current infrastructure and migrating it to a true service-oriented architecture. It is intended that after reading this paper,you will understand why it is claimed that a SOA is the best platform for carrying existing assets into the future, as well as enabling the rapid and correct development of future applications. Additionally, you should have a better understanding of the major considerations in planning such a migration.

SOA Defined and Explained

A detailed web links directory on Service-Oriented Architecture.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a design methodology aimed at maximizing the reuse of application-neutral services to increase IT adaptability and efficiency. While these concepts have existed for decades, the adoption of SOA is accelerating due to the emergence of standards-based integration technologies like Web services and XML. Within these pages you will gain practical knowledge on how to leverage today's technology to implement SOA.

Vinci is a local area service-oriented architecture designed for rapid development and management of robust web applications. Based on XML document exchange, Vinci is designed to complement and interoperate with wide area service-oriented architectures such as E-Speak and .NET. This paper presents the Vinci architecture, the rationale behind its design, and an evaluation of its performance. Specifically,it shows how systems architected with Vinci are developed quickly, scaled effortlessly, and easily moved from prototype to production.

This site will help you get started with Web Services and service-oriented architectures. It features free articles, services, and product listings that can be used to develop a service-oriented architecture using Web Services.

The future of software development is automating rote tasks.By creating new ways in which software development can be automated, productivity increased, and software quality improved and addressing the topics of:

Product-Line Architectures
Program Generation/Synthesis
Domain-Specific Languages
Refactorings (Automated Applications of OO Design Patterns)

An overview of N-Tier Application Architecture,esp in comparison to 3-tier architecture.

This addresses the important issue of application architecture using an N-tier approach. The first part is a brief introduction to the theoretical aspects, including the understanding of certain basic concepts. The second part shows how to create a flexible and reusable application for distribution to any number of client interfaces.

A source for quick info on Three Tier Software Architectures by the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute.

Model Driven Architecture (MDA) "provides an open, vendor-neutral approach to the challenge of interoperability, building upon and leveraging the value of OMG's established modeling standards: Unified Modeling Language (UML); Meta-Object Facility (MOF); and Common Warehouse Meta-model (CWM). Platform-independent Application descriptions built using these modeling standards can be realized using any major open or proprietary platform, including CORBA, Java, .NET, XMI/XML, and Web-Based platforms."[May 09, 2001]Cover Pages

The MDA is a new way of developing applications and writing specifications, based on a platform-independent model (PIM) of the application or specification's business functionality and behavior. A complete MDA specification consists of a definitive platform-independent base model, plus one or more platform-specific models (PSM) and sets of interface definitions, each describing how the base model is implemented on a different middleware platform. A complete MDA application consists of a definitive PIM, plus one or more PSMs and complete implementations, one on each platform that the applicatio

The Java Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA) provides the infrastructure you need to build end-user debugger applications for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE).

Information architecture is the science of figuring out what you want your site to do and then constructing a blueprint before you dive in and put the thing together. It's more important than you might think, and John Shiple, aka Squishy, tells you why.

Squishy first looks at how to define your site's goals, shedding light on the all-important art of collecting clients' or co-workers' opinions and assembling them in a coherent, weighted order of importance. He also shares his scheme for documenting everything so that all parties can keep up.

The next step is figuring out who the heck your audiences are going to be. Once that's out of the way, you can start organizing your future site into pages of content and functions that the site will need to have.

A power-point presentation on Enterprise Information Architecture,esp its operation in the health-care industry.

It provides an overview of Enterprise Information Architecture.
The primary objective of an "architected" environment is to deliver higher quality, integrated systems and information at a significantly reduced cost, over time. The Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA) is the vehicle which provides the "roadmap" to the "architected" environment.