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• SOA lifecycle quiz – assembly

  This quiz delves into the best practices of assembly during the SOA Lifecycle, focusing on integration, reuse and orchestration. Continue Reading

• SOA repository

  An SOA repository is a database containing the software and metadata that constitute an SOA registry... (Continued) Continue Reading

• SOA governance

  SOA governance refers to the processes used to oversee and control the adoption and implementation of service-oriented architecture (SOA) in accordance with recognized practices, principles and government regulations... (Continued) Continue Reading

• SOA registry

  An SOA registry is a resource that provides controlled access to data necessary for governance of SOA (service-oriented architecture) projects... (Continued) Continue Reading

• SOA lifecycle quiz – modeling and design

  This quiz on the modeling and design step with the SOA lifecycle delves into topics such as business service models, agile service delivery and BPM. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • source code
  • user interface (UI)
  • REST (REpresentational State Transfer)
  • RESTful API

  • application program interface (API)
  • class diagram
  • Web services
  • state diagram (state machine diagram or statechart diagram)

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• Service Data Objects (SDO)

  Service Data Objects (SDO) is the name of a specification designed to streamline the processing of SOA (service-oriented architecture) data from diverse sources such as XML documents, relational databases and Web services... (Continued)Continue Reading

• WS-Policy (Web Services Policy Framework specifications)

  WS-Policy is an abbreviation for the Web Services Policy specifications, members of the core Web Services architecture specifications... (Continued)Continue Reading

• WS-AtomicTransaction (WS-AT)

  WS-AtomicTransaction, also called Web Services Atomic Transaction or WS-AT, is a specification that defines how single transactions are carried out based on WS-Coordination and WS-Transaction, companion specifications for information exchange in ...Continue Reading

• SOA lifecycle fundamentals quiz

  This quiz covers the principles of SOA and the basics of the service lifecycle. It also delves into planning an SOA and ROI issues.Continue Reading

• service-component architecture (SCA)

  Service-component architecture (SCA) is a group of specifications intended for the development of applications based on service-oriented architecture (SOA), which defines how computing entities interact to perform work for each other... (Continued)Continue Reading

• Web Services Trust Language (WS-Trust)

  Web Services Trust Language (WS-Trust) is a specification that uses the secure messaging mechanisms of WS-Security to facilitate trust relationships in diverse Web service environments... (Continued)Continue Reading

• Common Language Infrastructure (CLI)

  Part of Microsoft's .NET strategy, Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) enables an application program written in any of several commonly-used programming languages to be run on any operating system using a common runtime program rather than a ...Continue Reading

• endpoint reference (EPR)

  An endpoint reference (EPR) is a combination of Web services (WS) elements that define the address for a resource in a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) header... (Continued)Continue Reading

• service-level management

  Service-level management is the monitoring and management of the quality of service(QoS) of an entity's key performance indicators(KPIs).Continue Reading

• Service Integration Maturity Model (SIMM)

  The Service Integration Maturity Model (SIMM) is a paradigm developed by IBM that defines the extent to which various services are integrated in a service-oriented architecture (SOA)... (Continued)Continue Reading