Microsoft Archtitecture Journal Issue 7 ist seit kurzem verfügbar - die Themen: SOA und Workflow.

John Evdemon (a solutions architect with the Microsoft Architecture Strategy Team) just published 2 articles on the principles of web service design.

Principles of Service Design: Service Patterns and Anti-Patterns (which I posted already a while ago)

Summary: This paper, the first of a multi-paper series, provides some fundamental principles for designing and implementing Web services. The paper starts with a brief review of SOA concepts and leads up to a detailed discussion of several patterns and anti-patterns that developers can leverage when building Web services today. Guidance in this paper is applicable to any programming language or platform for which Web services can be developed and deployed.  This paper includes three working examples that you can download and review.

Principles of Service Design: Service Versioning

Summary: This paper is the second in a multi-paper series focusing on service design principles. This paper surveys some fundamental guidelines for versioning schemas and Web services. Six specific principles for versioning Web services are identified.

And John is running a interesting blog on Service Design.

After his famous Smart Client article "RSS Feed Aggregator and Blogging Smart Client" Omar Al Zabir has written another article on Smart Client Development covering Smart Clients with .NET Framework 2.0 (but based on 1.1 XML Web Services)

This paper, the first of a multi-paper series, provides some fundamental principles for designing and implementing Web services. The paper starts with a brief review of SOA concepts and leads up to a detailed discussion of several patterns and anti-patterns that developers can leverage when building Web services today. Guidance in this paper is applicable to any programming language or platform for which Web services can be developed and deployed.

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 ;-)

• Boundaries are explicit
• Services are Autonomous
• Services share Schema and Contract not type or class
• Service compatibility is based on policy

Microsoft bietet eine kostenlose DVD unter dem Titel "Connected Systems Business Kit" an.

Auf der DVD finden sich Informationen für Entwickler und Software Architekten (und andere wichtige Leute ;-)) zum Thema SOA.

Ebenfalls auf der DVD: Generico, eine Beispiel-Applikation, die eine typische Implementierung von SOA zeigt.

Lieferzeit laut Bestätigungsmail: 3 - 5 Wochen......