Chapter 30
Ten Swell SOA Resources
In This Chapter
Getting involved with SOA standards
Finding free resources from your favorite vendors
Scanning some cool SOA blogs
Checking out vertical industry groups
Looking at enterprise architecture and business sources
We’ve preached one cardinal rule for all would-be SOAjourners throughout this book — don’t go it alone! In this chapter, we’ve compiled a list of resources we hope you’ll find useful on your SOA journey.
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SOA Consortium
www.soa-consortium.org/index.htm
If you want to share ideas with other customers, you’ll really like a great resource called the SOA Consortium. It’s a SOA advocacy group consisting of end users, systems integrators, service providers, and technology vendors, who are committed to helping the businesses successfully adopt SOA by 2010. The SOA Consortium goals, mission, and strategies, are given in the following list:
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