Category Archives: SOA

Passed Exam S90.01: Fundamental SOA & Service-Oriented Computing

This morning I went to take the exam S90.01 and passed without too much difficulties, 96/100 isn’t that bad I guess This exam is to test your basic understanding of Service-Orientation, here is a list of the things you have … Continue reading

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Understanding SOA – Principles – Service Loose Coupling

Introduction Service Loose Coupling means that each service is an isolated entity with limited dependencies on other (shared) resources. These resources could be technologies, (legacy) applications, databases, components, API’s, infrastructure… The more a service is isolated from external resources the … Continue reading

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Understanding SOA – Principles – Service Contract

IntroductionThe service contract is probably the most important thing/document/artifact that you’ll be creating or using concerning a SOA implementation. This is what technically defines a service, what it will look like, what it is capable of doing and how it’s … Continue reading

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Scheduled exam S90.01

I just scheduled my first soaschool.com exam for December 30, just in time to keep on track with my planning to do one exam this year I’ve read the book SOA: Principles of Service Design completely, read the self-study material … Continue reading

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Oslo as a SOA Service Repository?

Don’t expect an answer, only a question. Could Oslo be used as a service repository in SOA within the enterprise? If so this could be quite powerful. You can create a grammar for the service contracts (wsdl, xsd…) and additional … Continue reading

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SOA symposium presentations

The second international SOA symposium is organized from October 22-23 2009 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. There are also 3 days of workshops (Oct. 19-21). But, the presentations of last years symposium can be downloaded for free. Topics include SOA in … Continue reading

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Understanding SOA – Introduction

Service-Orientation, Service Oriented Architecture, web services, if you’re not using the word service you’re just not cool!! As explained in my previous post I’m currently preparing to get SOA certified and so it might be a good exercise for me … Continue reading

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Studying towards Certified SOA Consultant of SOASchool.com

I’ve been interested in SOA and web services for years and to make things "official" I’ve decided to get certified in this area. After looking around for the possibilities I decided to take the certification of SOASchool.com. Why did I … Continue reading

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