"Readings on Service Orientation" ist ein PDF-Dokument mehrerer Microsoft Architekten zu verschiedenen Themen der Software-Entwicklung unter dem Aspekt der Service-Orientierung:

Design and Modeling: Aligning Business and IT

• Introduction
• A Business-Oriented Foundation for Service Orientation
• Modeling Languages for Distributed Applications
• The Case for Software Factories
• Design and Implementation of a Software Factory
• Understanding the System Definition Model

• Introduction
• Entity Aggregation
• Data on the Outside versus Data on the Inside

• Introduction
• Dealing with Concurrency: Designing Interaction Between Services and Their Agents
• Choosing the Right Presentation Layer Architecture
• Build Applications on a Workflow Platform
• Of People, Processes and Programs

• Introduction
• The Laws of Identity
• Microsoft’s Vision for an Identity Metasystem
• Identity and Access Management

Protocols and Practice: Services-based Infrastructure

• Introduction
• Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Choosing Alternate Transports for Web Services
• Principles of Service Design: Service Versioning

Seit gestern ist Ausgabe 8 des Microsoft Architecture Journal verfügbar. Fokus diesmal: Daten.

Der Inhalt:

• Reliability in Connected Systems
• A Flexible Model for Data Integration
• Autonomous Services and Enterprise Entity Aggregation
• Data Replication as an Enterprise SOA Antipattern
• Patterns for High-Integrity Data Consumption and Composition
• The Nordic Object/Relational Database Design
• Adopt and Benefit from Agile Processes in Offshore Software Development
• Service-Oriented Modeling for Connected Systems –Part 2

Übrigens: Ausgabe 7 ist auch in deutsch verfügbar - Fokus dort: Workflow

Southworks has released it's Enterprise Development Reference Architecture (EDRA) Workshop material to the community!

Course / Workshop description:

"This 5 day course presents the key concepts needed to build enterprise class applications using the  Enterprise Development Reference Architecture (EDRA), which provides architectural guidance that an organization can use to standardize the development of distributed systems. The course also provides hands-on experience creating services and exposing their interfaces.

By the end of the week, students will have acquired the basic knowledge to start building standardized distributed applications based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). They will also count with a functional Web Banking system, implemented using most of Microsoft Platform Architecture Guidance (PAG) and EDRA assets."

Grab it and visit the Workspace @GDN ;-)

Reading Patterns & Practices Articles in the browser may not be the best solution. It's more comfortable to read them as PDF files. Microsoft has released nearly all Architecture Guides at Patterns & Practices as PDF files - but they are as wide spread as the articles themselves.

To get rid of this mess, here is a list with direct links to the PDF-Downloads:

Application Architecture for .NET: Designing Applications and Services

Smart Client Architecture and Design Guide

Guidelines for Application Integration

Application Interoperability: Microsoft .NET and J2EE

Caching Architecture Guide for .NET Framework Applications

Designing Application-Managed Authorization

Designing Data Tier Components and Passing Data Through Tiers

Exception Management Architecture Guide

Design and Implementation Guidelines for Web Clients

UNIX Application Migration Guide

.NET Data Access Architecture Guide

Web Service Facade for Legacy Applications Guide

WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0 Sample Application: Preview release for the .NET Framework version 1.1

...and if you don't like PDF's too, just buy the books ;-)

Microsoft Architects Journal Issue 5 is available.

Articles in this Issue:

• An Introduction to Topic Maps
• Metropolis and SOA Governance, Part 1: Towards the Agile Metropolis
• Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Choosing Alternate Transports for Web Services
• Process and Criteria for Evaluating Services-Based Integration Technologies
• Service-Oriented, Distributed, High-Performance Computing
• Value-Driven Architecture: Linking Product Strategy with Architecture

As said in earlier postings: a must read!

Microsoft verstärkt sein Engagement beim Thema Software-Architektur - dies zeigt der Launch des Architecture Resource Centers sowie der Relaunch der bisherigen Architecture-Seite bei MSDN online. Diese läuft jetzt unter dem Namen MSDN Solution Architecture Center.

Außerdem gibt es jetzt das Architecture Blog - ein MetaFeed (RSS),  bestehend aus den RSS-Feeds mehrerer MSDN-Architecture-Blogger (OPML).

Last but not least finden sich https://www.architecturewebcasts.com/ aktuelle Webcasts zum Thema Software-Architektur.

An dieser Stelle sei auch erwähnt, dass es bei http://glengamoi.com eine Mailingliste gibt, die sich mit dem Thema Softwarearchitektur befasst.

Das Microsoft Architects Journal October 2004 ist seit wenigen Tagen als PDF Download verfügbar.

Die Themen:

• Choosing the Right Presentation Layer Architecture
• Information Bridge Framework: Bringing SOA to the desktop in Office applications
• Benchmarking a Transaction Engine Design
• Enterprise Architecture Alignment Heuristics
• Razorbills: What and How of Service Consumption
• Next Generation Tools for OOD (Object Oriented Development)

Microsoft hat die sog. Enterprise Library angekündigt. Diese stellt im ersten Schritt eine Library dar, die die bisherigen Application Blocks von Microsoft in eben dieser Library vereint.

Folgende Vorteile sieht Microsoft in dieser Library:

• Consistency – all Application Blocks will feature consistent design patterns and implementation approaches, configuration mechanisms, documentation, samples, deployment and operational processes. 
• Extensibility – developers will be able to customize the behavior of the blocks by ‘plugging in’ their own code into extensibility points or by modifying the blocks’ source code. Enterprise Library will also ship with guidance to assist developers with building their own blocks that integrate with the Library.
• Ease of Use – we’re making many usability improvements which will make it much easier to evaluate, install, learn, configure and develop with the blocks.
• Integration – the Application Blocks are designed and tested to work well together or individually.

Wie bereits die Application Blocks, liegt auch die Enterprise Library in einem GotDotNet-Workspace.

"In this article, Joe Wirtley describes an architecture for your applications that allows you to add new features without recompiling. Using reflection, interfaces, and dynamically loaded assemblies, you can create applications that can easily be extended with new business logic."

Extensible Applications: New Features Without Recompiling