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 ...

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Many organizations' efforts to move to SOA have been mired by organizational issues, by conflicting vendor messages, and by architectures that may amount to little more than Just a Bunch of Web ...

A policy expresses a set of requirements or rules that service consumers usually must adhere to in order to invoke and interact with a service. We use the term “usually” here because you can have ...