Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures

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

Online articles that provide an extensive overview of Web services, related standards, and technologies that can be used in a service-oriented architecture. There are nearly 400 pages of articles.

Services to help your organization decide how to use a service-oriented architecture.

Product listings to connect you to the vendor sites for each of the technologies. 

Example enterprise service-oriented architecture

The following diagram is an example of a service-oriented architecture using Web services. Click on the yellow boxes below to obtain more information on a subject.

Free Online Tool to Help with SOA Design

We have developed a free online tool to help with design decomposition. Design decomposition is part of the process of designing a service-oriented architecture. Go the DesignDecomposition.com to try this tool.

Getting started

We help prepare organizations for moving to a service-oriented architecture:

Consulting and customized working sessions on software architecture. This helps you quickly make fully informed decisions concerning your enterprise architecture. More...

Mentoring on technical issues. These sessions make it easier for managers and project leads to get up-to-speed on architectural considerations. More...

Speaking on topics related to advanced software architectures and how such architectures can be used in organizations. This is a great way to communicate the value of using various types of software architectures to larger groups. More...

Online articles

There are over 400 pages of online articles. These free articles covers the type of service-oriented architecture and related technologies shown in the above figure:

Service-oriented architecture articles

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) definition

Web services specifications and organizations

XML background, specifications, and vocabularies

Application server articles

Database articles

Database concepts and standards

Relational databases

Object-relational mapping

Object-oriented databases

XML databases

XML middleware

Products

Lists of product vendors along with links to their respective sites:

Web services 

Application servers 

Relational databases 

Object-relational databases 

Object-relational mapping 

Object-oriented databases

XML databases

XML middleware

Web services book

Doug Barry has prepared the material on this site. He is also the author of a book that explains Web services and service-oriented architecture in an easy-to-understand, a non-technical manner. More on Doug Barry...

Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures: The Savvy Manager's Guide
by Douglas K. Barry

Sample pages and more information on this book: click here.

Latest updates on the specifications mentioned in this book: click here.

Free Webcast discussing one of the chapters of the book: click here.

Stencils so you can create your own force-field analysis or service-oriented architecture diagrams: click here.

 

This book is part of the Savvy Manager's Guide series. The series is intended to help IT managers deal with technological change. Doug Barry is also the series editor for this series. Click here for more information on this series.

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