SOA Pattern (#8): ESB Pattern
The ESB is a compound pattern that pulls together many enablement and enforcement capabilities that come in handy to the SOA practitioner. Thomas Rischbeck explains it here.
SOA Pattern of the Week (#7): Policy Centralization
The Policy Centralization pattern advocates that we keep a reusable policy in a single definition and have service contracts to which the policy applies, link to and share this definition.
SOA Pattern of the Week (#6): Canonical Schema
Of all the patterns in the SOA design patterns catalog there is perhaps no other as simple to understand yet as difficult to apply in practice as Canonical Schema. There are also few patterns that spark as much debate.
SOA Pattern of the Week (#5): Service Decomposition
A service inventory is a living body of services that individually will need the freedom to evolve independently over time. What we learned when documenting the SOA design pattern catalog is that there are patterns that emerged not only at design-time but also during this post-implementation evolutionary stage in a service's lifecycle.
SOA Pattern of the Week (#4): Service Normalization
Service Normalization is one of many patterns that support service reusability, but its goals go beyond that. Like data normalization, the Service Normalization pattern is intent on reducing redundancy and waste in order to avoid the governance burden associated with having to maintain and synchronize similar or duplicate bodies of service logic.
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SOA Pattern of the Week (#4): Service Normalization
SOA Pattern of the Week (#5): Service Decomposition
SOA Pattern of the Week (#6): Canonical Schema
SOA Pattern of the Week (#7): Policy Centralization
SOA Pattern (#8): ESB Pattern
SOA Pattern of the Week (#3): Domain Inventory