Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz

This article is based on the book SOA Patterns (http://www.manning.com/rotem) scheduled to print February 2009. This article is courtesy of Manning Publications (http://www.manning.com). The ebook is available and sold exclusively through Manning Publications. Another important attribute of service construction is: How do we handle messages once we get them either on the edge component or in the service? The Transactional Service Pattern allows for solving this problem while also dealing with reliability problems. Transactional Service The nominal scenario of SOA is for a service to get a request to do something from a service consumer, the service then handles the request, maybe asking other services to do some stuff as well, and then produces one or more reactions for the consumer that initiated the request. Figure 6 shows such a nominal scenario in an e-commerce ... (more)

SOA Patterns: Basic Structural Patterns - Part 1

This article is based on the book SOA Patterns (http://www.manning.com/rotem) scheduled to print February 2009. This article is courtesy of Manning Publications (http://www.manning.com). The ebook is available and sold exclusively through Manning Publications. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become the leading solution for complex, connected business systems. While it's easy to grasp the theory of SOA, implementing well-designed, practical SOA systems can be a difficult challenge. SOA Patterns provides detailed, technology-neutral solutions to the challenges by providing... (more)

SOA Patterns: Basic Structural Patterns – Part 3

This article is based on the book SOA Patterns (http://www.manning.com/rotem) scheduled to print February 2009. This article is courtesy of Manning Publications (http://www.manning.com). The ebook is available and sold exclusively through Manning Publications. Workflodize Pattern For one of the projects I worked on, we had to build a sales support system for a mobile operator. It would probably not come as a surprise to you if I told you that the competition between mobile operators is very fierce. The result of this competition is that the operator's marketing departments burn ... (more)