The book identifies 85 SOA design patterns which have been developed and thoroughly vetted to ensure that a service-oriented architecture does achieve the flexibility and loose coupling promised.

Today, InfoQ publishes an excerpt from Thomas Erl’s newest book, SOA Design Patterns, and an interview with the author on various SOA-related and pattern-related topics.

Within the SOA design patterns catalog, these domains are represented as service inventories – collections of independently standardized, governed and owned services.

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In this article we present 3 Inventory Governance Patterns from chapter 10 of the book SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl: Canonical Expression, Metadata Centralization, and Canonical Versioning.

Get beyond the myths of service-oriented architecture. Learn how to leverage WCF to successfully implement SOA design patterns that can help deliver on the promises of SOA.

Thomas Rischbeck, a contributor to Thomas Erl's SOA Design Patterns, wants to clear the air on some of the confusion and controversy that has been associated with enterprise service buses (ESBs ...

Get beyond the myths of service-oriented architecture. Learn how to leverage WCF to successfully implement SOA design patterns that can help deliver on the promises of SOA.

To account for evolution of your SOA security strategy over time, bake into your design as much consistency as possible between simpler SOA security patterns and more-complex ones.

SOA design patterns have been around for more than a decade and are a precursor to today’s REST API and cloud API design patterns.