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Resources for SOA

• W3C Web Services Architecture, http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-arch/
• Web Services in a Service-Oriented Architecture, Java Blueprints Catalog, https://bpcatalog.dev.java.net/nonav/soa/index.html
• SOA Patterns Community http://www.SOAPatterns.org
• ZapThink, http://www.zapthink.com/
• SOA and Web services "library," IBM Developerworks, http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/views/webservices/library.jsp
• SOA Resources Roundup, IBM, http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/architecture/roadmap/#2
• The SOA Magazine, http://www.soamag.com/
• SOA Web Services Journal http://webservices.sys-con.com/
• Service Oriented Architecture http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/soa/
• CBDI Service-Oriented Archiecture Practic Portal, http://www.cbdiforum.com/ 
• FTPOnline's SOA Knowledge Center, http://fawcette.com/special/soa/

SOA Discussion Groups, Blogs, Blog Posts and Essays

• SOA Center Blueprints, http://www.soacenter.com/?cat=2
• Getting Started with SOA discussion, IBM Developerworks
• Carr's "The web services schism" blog post, April 26, 2006
• John Hagel's "SOA versus Web 2.0" blog post, April 25, 2006
• Dion Hinchcliffe, "The SOA with reach: Web-Oriented Architecture,"  April 1, 2006
• Is SOA part of EA, InfoWorld blog posting by Dave Linthicum
• Joe McKendrick's SOA blog on ZDNET, including Portalmania with an SOA Twist, posted on July 12, 2006
• Robert Morschel's SOA Probe blog
• David Walend's "Understanding Service Oriented Architecture" on java.net
• Jimmy Nilssen's SOA-Q blog series
• David Ing's "Dude, where's my SOA?" blog post
• IBM's Best Practices for Web Services Forum
• Loosely Coupled weblog

Books on Service-Oriented Architecture

• Allen, Paul with Sam Higgins, Paul McRae and Hermann Schlamann, Service Orientation: Winning Strategies and Best Practices, 2006.
• Thomas Erl et al, SOA Design Patterns, January 2009.
• Thomas Erl et al, Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA, September 2008.
• Erl, Thomas, Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology and Design, Prentice-Hall, 2005.
• Krafzig, Dirk, Karl Banke, Dirk Slama, Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices (The Coad Series), Prentice-Hall, 2004.
• Marks, Eric A. and Michael Bell, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): A Planning and Implementation Guide for Business and Technology, Wiley, 2006.

Articles, Papers and Interviews on SOA

• "Artus, David, "SOA Realization: Service Design Principles," IBM developWorks, http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-soa-design/
• Ali Arsanjani, "Service-oriented modeling and architecture How to identify, specify, and realize services for your SOA,"  IBM, 09 Nov 2004. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-soa-design1/ 
• Datz, Todd, "What You Need to Know About Service-Oriented Architecture," CIO Magazine, January 15, 2004. http://www.cio.com/archive/011504/soa.html
• Gartner interview with Geoffrey Moore (gets to SOA close to the end of the interview) http://www.gartner.com/research/fellows/asset_135671_1176.jsp
• Gruman, Galen, "SOA's True Challenge--It Ain't Technology," CIO Magazine, May 1, 2006.
• Koch, Christopher, "A New Blueprint For The Enterprise," CIO Magazine, May 1, 2005.
• Kolawa, Adam, "BPEL in a Service-Oriented Architecture," DMReview, June 2, 2006.
• Morgenthal, JP, "Enterprise Architecture: The Holistic View: The A in SOA is Architecture," DMReview.com
  January 26, 2006, http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1046478
• Plummer, Daryl, "Web Services at a Crossroads," http://www.optimizemag.com/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=180207087
• Sadd, John, "If SOA Looks Hard to You, You're looking at it wrong", DM Review Magazine, May 2006.
• US Army's guide to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), http://www.army.mil/escc/erp/soa.htm

Service-Oriented Architecture Experience Reports

• "A Conversation with Werner Vogels," About Amazon and SOA, from Web Services, Vol. 4, No. 4 - May 2006.
• "Ten Examples of SOA at Work Right Now," blog post by Joe McKendrick http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=508
  - SOA at NASA, "Bringing IT challenges down to earth," Peter Coffee http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1897761,00.asp
  - T-Mobile, interview with Hossein Moiin by Christopher Koch, CIO Magazine, http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=10591
• See also snippets on T-Mobile, Verizon, Lyndian Trust, Cendant in Christopher Koch's  "A New Blueprint For The Enterprise," CIO Magazine, March 1, 2005.