Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a paradigm for organizing and utilizing distributed capabilities that may be under the control of different ownership domains. The fundamental building block of SOA is a Service.

• 'Service-Oriented World’ Cheat Sheet
• Wikipedia - Service oriented architecture

• SOA reference model

• Paul Allen : Service Orientation: Winning Strategies and Best Practices, ISBN: 978-0521843362 (the best book)
• Tom Debevoise : Business Process Management With a Business Rules Approach: Implementing the Service Oriented Architecture, ISBN: 978-097690480
• Thomas Erl : Service-oriented Architecture. A Field Guide to Integrating XML and Web Services.: A Field Guide to Integrating XML and Web Services, ISBN: 978-0131428980
• Saul Margolis, Ben Margolis : SOA for the Business Developer: Concepts, BPEL, and SCA: Concepts, BPEL and SCA, ISBN: 978-1583470657
• Eric A. Marks and Michael Bell : Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): A Planning and Implementation Guide for Business and Technology, ISBN: 978-0471768944
• Dan Woods and Thomas Mattern : Enterprise SOA: Designing IT for Business Innovation, ISBN: 978-0596102388
• Dirk Krafzig and Karl Banke and Dirk Slama : Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices, ISBN: 978-0131465756
• Munindar P. Singh, Michael N. Huhns : Service-Oriented Computing: Semantics, Processes, Agents, ISBN: 978-047009148

• Andreas Hess, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Humm, Dr. Markus Voß : Regeln für serviceorientierte Architekturen hoher Qualität (PDF)
• Dr. Markus Voß, Andreas Hess, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Humm : Towards a Framework for Large Scale Quality Architecture (PDF)
• Prof. Dr. Bernhard Humm, Oliver Juwig : Eine Normalform für Services (PDF)
• Dr. (Ph.D.) Bernhard Humm, Boris Zech : Architekturzentriertes Vorgehen für Integrationsprojekte (PDF)

• An Abstract SOA Model
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Understanding Service-Oriented Architecture