Service Oriented Architecture

Successfully implement your own enterprise integration architecture using the Trivadis Integration Architecture Blueprint
Overview of Service Oriented Architecture: An Integration Blueprint

A complete, comprehensive methodology and framework for adopting and managing a successful service oriented architecture environment. Achieving Service–Oriented Architecture helps to set up an SOA Architecture Practice defining the policies, procedures, and standards that apply not just to IT developers but to the entire corporation as it relates to business applications.

This IBM Redbook describes the use of XML on IBM servers running z/OS® or OS/390®, and how it can be extended to modernize legacy applications. It provides both a high-level discussion of service-oriented architecture along with practical, detailed information about XML. In addition to an overview of XML concepts, the first part of the book provides detailed instructions for installing the XML Toolkit for z/OS and OS/390 V1.4 and running the sample programs bundled with it.

For anyone who has been developing web applications for 10 years or more, the recent rise of microservices sounds a lot like a development approach we already knew - service-oriented architecture (SOA). Both architectures are focused on breaking up large monolithic applications into collections of smaller independent services, and both come with the promise of simplifying development.