Everything about Web-oriented architecture

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Web-oriented architectureA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Distributed Ledger as a Service: A Web 3.0-Oriented ArchitectureInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: PatternsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Quality-of-service oriented web service composition algorithm and planning architectureCited 124 times
5. Go sideways: RESTA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Service-oriented architectureA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Quality-of-service oriented web service composition algorithm and planning architecture

  Jong Myoung Ko, Chang Ouk Kim, Ick-Hyun Kwon · 2008 · Journal of Systems and Software · 124 citations

• From the Service-Oriented Architecture to the Web API Economy

  Wei Tan, Yushun Fan, Ahmed Ghoneim · 2016 · IEEE Internet Computing · 92 citations

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

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

• Events and service-oriented architecture: The OASIS Web Services Notification specification

  P. Niblett, S. Graham · 2005 · IBM Systems Journal · 57 citations

• Using web services to realize service oriented architecture in military communication networks

  Ketil Lund, Anders Eggen, Dinko Hadzic · 2007 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 36 citations

• Enabling a scalable service-oriented architecture with semantic Web Services

  A. Duke, J. Davies, M. Richardson · 2005 · BT Technology Journal · 28 citations

• Service-Oriented Architecture and Web 2.0

  J.T. Howerton · 2007 · IT Professional · 14 citations

• Development of Web-Based Transit Trip-Planning System Based on Service-Oriented Architecture

  Daniel (Jian) Sun, Zhong-Ren Peng, Xiaofang Shan · 2011 · Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board · 14 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Distributed Ledger as a Service: A Web 3.0-Oriented Architecture

  Francesco Chiti, Giorgio Gandini · 2023 · Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks · 10 citations

• Toward the Web of Industrial Things: A Publish-Subscribe Oriented Architecture for Data and Power Management

  Claudio Bartoli, Michele Bonanni, Francesco Chiti · 2022 · Sensors · 6 citations

• Pembangunan Sistem Informasi Layanan Kemahasiswaan Berbasis Web Menggunakan Service-Oriented Architecture

  Fikri Septrian Anggara, Lutfi Rahmatuti Maghfiroh · 2022 · Seminar Nasional Official Statistics · 0 citations

• Implementasi Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Menggunakan Teknologi Web Service Pada Apartemen MERR 101 Surabaya

  Dhika Adimastiar, Eman Setiawan · 2023 · Jurnal Ilmu Komputer dan Bisnis · 0 citations

• SISTEM LAYANAN MANAJEMEN PENGAJUAN PERIJINAN DAN INVENTARIS BERBASIS WEB MENGGUNAKAN FRAMEWORK SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA)

  Sri Widiyanti, Riyan Abdul Azis, Ina Sholihah Widiati · 2025 · ZONAsi: Jurnal Sistem Informasi · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• PatternsIBM Redbooks · 2002
• Executing SOANorbert Bieberstein, Robert G. Laird · 2008
• Understanding SCA (Service Component Architecture)Jim Marino, Jim Marino · 2009
• 📕Power systems and SOA synergyBudi Darmawan · 2008
• COM programming by exampleJohn Swanke · 2000
• 📕Enterprise master data managementAllen Dreibelbis, Eberhard Hechler · 2008
• SOA with JavaThomas Erl, Andre Tost · 2013
• Web development with TIBCO General interfaceAnil Gurnani · 2009

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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