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Resources for SOA

• SOA and Web services "library," IBM Developerworks, http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/views/webservices/library.jsp
• SOA Web Services Journal http://webservices.sys-con.com/
• 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

• Getting Started with SOA discussion, IBM Developerworks, http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ar-itio4/
• Is SOA part of EA, InfoWorld blog posting by Dave Linthicum http://weblog.infoworld.com/realworldsoa/archives/2006/01/is_soa_a_part_o.html
• Joe McKendrick's SOA blog on ZDNET http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/
• David Walend's "Understanding Service Oriented Architecture"  on java.net http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/04/04/understanding-service-oriented-architecture.html

Books on Service-Oriented Architecture

• 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.

Essays, 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/
• 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
• 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

Service-Oriented Architecture Experience Reports

• "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

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Note on URLs

I provide both a link on the case study name and the URL. I realize, naturally, that when one is online, the URL is superfluous, and indeed often very ugly. Sorry about that. But as soon as the page is printed, the links do not show up as URLs, of course. Yes, I know one could "Google" the title and find the referenced work even more easily than typing in an arcane URL. It is a matter of reference—the URL identifies exactly where the referenced work (at least at some point) was published online. I believe that the "old establishment" are going to have to recognize the legitimacy of papers published on the web, and create a standard for referencing them. If/when such a standard exists, please do inform me of it! Until then, I think it is reasonable to be complete in referencing the URL as the publication source.