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SOA Patterns

Service orientation involves distributed systems collaborating, sharing information, and integrating seamlessly. This unique nature of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) presents new challenges for architects and system designers.

Just as the object-oriented paradigm has well-defined design patterns to address recurring problems, the SOA world has also made efforts to identify and document solutions in the form of SOA design patterns.

Recently, Prentice Hall announced the publication of SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl, which introduces 85 design patterns for SOA. Alongside the book's release, the new SOAPatterns.org community site was launched. This platform serves as a forum for further development and refinement of SOA design patterns.

Contributors

Key contributors to the book and SOA pattern development include:

  • David Chappell and Clemens Utschig from Oracle
  • Mark Little from Red Hat
  • Jason Hogg from Microsoft
  • Dennis Wisnosky, Chief Architect and Chief Technical Officer at the U.S. Department of Defense

SOA Design Patterns in the Book

The 85 patterns identified in the book include:

  • Canonical Schema Bus
  • Composition Design Patterns
  • Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
  • Inventory Design Patterns
  • Policy Enforcement
  • Reliable Messaging
  • Service Design Patterns
  • Service Grid
  • Three-Layer Inventory
  • Transformation

SOA Patterns Website

The SOAPatterns.org website provides a categorized list of patterns that can be sorted alphabetically or by category. These categories include:

  • Foundational Inventory Patterns
  • Logical Inventory Layer Patterns
  • Inventory Centralization Patterns
  • Inventory Implementation Patterns
  • Inventory Governance Patterns
  • Foundational Service Patterns
  • Service Implementation Patterns
  • Service Security Patterns
  • Service Contract Design Patterns
  • Legacy Encapsulation Patterns
  • Service Governance Patterns
  • Capability Composition Patterns
  • Service Messaging Patterns
  • Composition Implementation Patterns
  • Service Interaction Security Patterns
  • Transformation Patterns
  • Common Compound Design Patterns

For more information on SOA design patterns, check out these resources:

SOA Design Patterns Poster

I have contributed to the "SOA Design Patterns Poster" on SOAPatterns.org. This poster visually catalogs the 85 design patterns from SOA Design Patterns (Thomas Erl, Prentice Hall, Copyright 2008).

The poster provides a concise reference for SOA architects, designers, and developers, offering a single-page (A2 size) or two-page (A3 size) view of all patterns, categorized with brief descriptions.

Posters in both A2 and A3 sizes are available for download at:
http://soapatterns.org/reference_posters

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