Good Resources on SOA?

Question

Have recently been given a project to complete which uses XML quite extensively.Am looking at an existing project which uses SOA. Am eager to get up to speed on SOA and so wondered if anyone coulod recommend any good sites / books etc.

I have a book by Thomas Erl called Service-Oriented Architecture and am looking to supplement this with other resources.

Cheers

Answer 1

From a not so technical point of view there is this great book published by Sogeti and IBM called SOA For Profit wich covers SOA processes SOA Governance quite well. Its a short interesting book that gives you another point of view. Then, depending on the platform/s you choose, each vendor will give you their point of view, for example if you choose Microsoft technologies, a good resource is their SOA site. IBM has another interesting site too.

Answer 2

Maybe these ressources might help you:

http://soa.sys-con.com/ http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/newto/

Answer 3

Maybe these can help you too:

http://soa.sys-con.com/

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/newto/

Answer 4

This http://service-architecture.blogspot.com/> blog has some sage advice on implementing SOA in large corporate projects.

Not hot on technical details but sopt on for design philosophy and how to do a succesfull implementation.

Answer 5

Maybe these can help you too:

http://soa.sys-con.com/

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/newto/

Answer 6

I recommend the High Scalability blog. It's not just about SOA but surely any medium to large SOA solution can benefit from the ideas expressed there:

http://highscalability.com/

Answer 7

Infoq has a lot of SOA content.

Like anything hijacked by the middleware venders you'll find a lot of discussion of SOA is dogma very distant from realistic evaluations of return on investment. Keep a critical eye.

Answer 8

Thanks for all the suggestions on this will look at purchasing a couple more books and some good sites there. Cheers!

Answer 9

The book entitled Enterprise Service Oriented Architectures published by Springer Verlag goes into way more detail than Thomas Erl's book and is highly recommended.

Answer 10

I know it is too late to answer. But still, I would recommend reading the following books to gain an in depth knowledge of SOA. SOA by Thomas Erl actually clears confusion about how SOA is used as buzzword marketing agents. Also, He is founder of SOA systems.

Also, SOA Design patterns is a good book to read.

Specifically mentioned the SOA again. So that others could get a direct link to it. :)

Cheers :)