Service-Oriented Architecture: Analysis and Design for Services and Microservices

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 How Patterns Are Used in This Book

1.2 Series Books That Cover Topics from the First Edition

1.3 How This Book Is Organized

1.4 Page References and Capitalization for Principles, Constraints, and Patterns

When I first authored Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design back in 2004, I did so primarily out of a motivation to help organize what at the time was a fragmented whirlwind of misperceptions, ambiguities, and bits of actual valid knowledge about what SOA was and was expected to become. The goal was to establish essential coverage of its architectural model and its underlying design paradigm, ...