Everything about Service-oriented architecture

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Service-oriented architectureA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A Service Oriented Architecture for the Digitalization and Automation of Distribution GridsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: PatternsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The Enterprise Service Bus: Making service-oriented architecture realCited 187 times
5. Go sideways: MicroservicesA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Service-oriented communicationsA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The Enterprise Service Bus: Making service-oriented architecture real

  M.-T. Schmidt, B. Hutchison, P. Lambros · 2005 · IBM Systems Journal · 187 citations

• SODA: Service Oriented Device Architecture

  S. de Deugd, R. Carroll, K. Kelly · 2006 · IEEE Pervasive Computing · 149 citations

• S3: A Service-Oriented Reference Architecture

  A. Arsanjani, Liang-Jie Zhang, M. Ellis · 2007 · IT Professional · 111 citations

• Service oriented architecture

  Kathryn B. Laskey, Kenneth Laskey · 2009 · WIREs Computational Statistics · 77 citations

• Web Services, Service-Oriented Computing, and Service-Oriented Architecture

  John Erickson, Keng Siau · 2008 · Journal of Database Management · 74 citations

• Commitment-Based Service-Oriented Architecture

  Munindar P. Singh, Amit K. Chopra, Nirmit Desai · 2009 · Computer · 63 citations

• Implementing Service-Oriented Architecture in Organizations

  Jae Choi, Derek L. Nazareth, Hemant K. Jain · 2010 · Journal of Management Information Systems · 45 citations

• Service-oriented architecture: Programming model and product architecture

  D. F. Ferguson, M. L. Stockton · 2005 · IBM Systems Journal · 44 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A Service Oriented Architecture for the Digitalization and Automation of Distribution Grids

  Marco Pau, Markus Mirz, Jan Dinkelbach · 2022 · IEEE Access · 46 citations

• Blockchain-Based Service-Oriented Architecture for Consent Management, Access Control, and Auditing

  Isabel Roman-Martinez, Jorge Calvillo-Arbizu, Vicente J. Mayor-Gallego · 2023 · IEEE Access · 39 citations

• A Framework for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)-Based IoT Application Development

  Joao Giao, Artem A. Nazarenko, Fernando Luis-Ferreira · 2022 · Processes · 27 citations

• Service-oriented architecture for Internet of Things: A semantic approach

  Sugyan Kumar Mishra, Anirban Sarkar · 2022 · Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences · 19 citations

• Decision as a Service (DaaS): A Service-Oriented Architecture Approach for Decisions in Processes

  Faruk Hasic, Johannes De Smedt, Seppe vanden Broucke · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Services Computing · 14 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• PatternsIBM Redbooks · 2002
• 📕Process-driven SOACarsten Hentrich · 2010
• Executing SOANorbert Bieberstein, Robert G. Laird · 2008
• Service delivery platformsSyed A. Ahson, Mohammad Ilyas · 2011
• Cloud enterprise architecturePethuru Raj · 2012
• 📕Power systems and SOA synergyBudi Darmawan · 2008
• 📕Enterprise master data managementAllen Dreibelbis, Eberhard Hechler · 2008
• Event-driven architectureAngela Yochem, Les Phillips · 2008

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