Implementing SOA: total architecture in practice

Pt. I. Fundamentals. SOA and the enterprise

Fundamentals

Service fundamentals

Using services

The SOA development process

Pt. II. The Business process perspective. Processes

Initial project scoping

The artifice of requirements

Business process architecture

Milestones

Process Constraints

Related processes

Modeling the domain

Enterprise architecture: Process and domain modeling

Pt. III. The systems perspective. Systems architecture overview

Top-level systems architecture

Pt. IV. Communications. Transport

Adapters

Enterprise architecture: Communications

Pt. V. Data and operations. Data challenges

Messages and operations

Data consistency: Maintaining one version of the truth

Common data models (CDM)

Identifiers (Unique Names)

Results validation

Enterprise architecture: Data

Pt. VI. Coordination. Coordination and breakdown detection

Transactions: Coordinating two or more activities

Process monitors and managers

Detecting and responding to breakdowns

Enterprise architecture: Coordination

Pt. VII. High availability, fault tolerance, and load distribution. High availability and fault tolerance fundamentals

Stateless and stateful failover

Multiple component failover

Workload distribution

Enterprise architecture: Fault tolerance, High availability, and load distribution

Pt. VIII. Completing the architecture. Process security

Process monitoring

Architecture evaluation

Pt. IX. Advanced topics. Representing a complex process

Process management and workflow

The Enterprise Architecture Group.