Service-Oriented Architecture Information Center
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Software Engineering Institute
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Welcome to our service-oriented architecture (SOA) information center. Use this information center as a guide to tools, services, courses, and areas of work that can help you develop insight into how best to approach SOA environments.
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A Research Agenda for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented Systems
• Technical Note
By Grace Lewis, Dennis B. Smith, Kostas Kontogiannis
This 2010 report describes the agenda of an SEI-led group that was formed to explore the business, engineering, and operations aspects of service-oriented architecture.
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A Scenario-Based Technique for Developing SOA Technical Governance
• Technical Note
By Soumya Simanta, Edwin J. Morris, Grace Lewis, Sriram Balasubramaniam, Dennis B. Smith
Organizations can make the available SOA governance frameworks more effective in their organizations using the scenario-based tailoring technique introduced in this technical note.
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Common Misconceptions About Service-Oriented Architecture
• White Paper
By Grace Lewis, Edwin J. Morris, Soumya Simanta, Dennis B. Smith, Lutz Wrage
This 2007 article from Crosstalk magazine suggests ways to more effectively address critical SOA issues that potential users, developers, and acquisition officers may have.
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Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture
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By Philip Bianco, Rick Kotermanski, Paulo Merson
This report contains technical information about SOA design considerations and tradeoffs that can help the architecture evaluator to identify and mitigate risks in a timely and effective manner.
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Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture
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By Philip Bianco, Paulo Merson
This presentation was delivered by Philip Bianco and Paulo Merson at the SATURN 2007 conference.
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Evaluating Service-Oriented Architectures
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By Rick Kotermanski, Paulo Merson
This report contains technical information about SOA design considerations and tradeoffs that can help the architecture evaluator to identify and mitigate risks in a timely and effective manner.
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Four Pillars of Service-Oriented Architecture
• White Paper
By Grace Lewis, Dennis B. Smith
This 2007 SEI whitepaper by Grace Lewis and Dennis B. Smith outlines four pillars to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) success.
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Model Problems in Technologies for Interoperability: Model-Driven Architecture
• Technical Note
By Grace Lewis, Lutz Wrage
This 2005 report looks at Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) as one of many technologies for accomplishing interoperability.
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Model Problems in Technologies for Interoperability: Web Services
• Technical Note
By Grace Lewis, Lutz Wrage
This 2006 report presents the results of applying the model problem approach in an initial investigation of the potential of Web services to enable interoperability.
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Primer on SOA Terms
• White Paper
By Grace Lewis
This white paper presents basic terminology related to Service- Oriented Architecture (SOA). The goal of the paper is to establish a baseline of terms for service-oriented systems.
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Quality Attributes and Service-Oriented Architectures
• Technical Note
By Liam O'Brien, Len Bass, Paulo Merson
This report examines the relationship between service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and quality attributes.
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Service Level Agreements in Service-Oriented Architecture Environments
• Technical Note
By Philip Bianco, Grace Lewis, Paulo Merson
This 2008 report surveys the state of practice in service level agreement specification and offers guidelines on how to assure that services are provided with high availability, security, performance, and …
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SMART: Analyzing the Reuse Potential of Legacy Components in a Service-Oriented Architecture Environment
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By Grace Lewis, Edwin J. Morris, Dennis B. Smith, Soumya Simanta
Is legacy system migration feasible for your organization as a means of SOA adoption? The Service Migration and Reuse Technique (SMART) assists an organization in determining what to migrate, the …
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SOA Research Agenda
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By Grace Lewis
This 2008 presentation by Grace Lewis details the taxonomy of the SEI's research agenda on the topics critical to success with SOA adoption.
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T-Check for Technologies for Interoperability: Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)—Part 1 Parent SEI Program
• Technical Note
By Soumya Simanta, Grace Lewis, Lutz Wrage
This report investigates Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA), one of the many technologies for accomplishing interoperability, using the T-Check technique.
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T-Check in Technologies for Interoperability: Web Services and Security—Single Sign-On
• Technical Note
By Lutz Wrage, Soumya Simanta, Grace Lewis, Saul Jaspan
This technical note presents the results of applying the T-Check approach in an initial investigation of two Web services standards, WS-Security and SAML, to create an SSO solution that works …
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Testing in Service-Oriented Environments
• Technical Report
By Edwin J. Morris, William Anderson, Sriram Balasubramaniam, David J. Carney, John Morley, Patrick R. Place, Soumya Simanta
This report makes 65 recommendations for improving testing in service-oriented environments. It covers testing functionality and testing for interoperability, security, performance, and reliability qualities.
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Workshop on Model-Driven Architecture and Program Generation
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By Grace Lewis, B. Craig Meyers, Kurt C. Wallnau
This report summarizes the results of a June 2006 workshop, held to explore business and technical aspects of program generation in the context of the Object Management Group's model-driven architecture …
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