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"The SEI has become a voice of sanity in helping organizations to sift through the claims about SOA approaches."
  —Grace Lewis, Technical Lead

SOA Information Center

Tools, Services, and Courses

Description

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Analyze the viability of reusing legacy components as the basis for services

Service Migration and Reuse Technique (SMARTSM)

Determine the gaps between the claims and realities of technologies, including those for interoperability

T-CheckSM investigations

Basics of service-oriented architecture and planning for legacy migration; includes an in-depth introduction of the SMART approach

Two-day course, Migrating Legacy Components to SOA Environments

Myths and realities of service-oriented architecture (SOA)

One-day course on Service-oriented architecture (SOA) basics

Legacy migration to service-oriented architecture (SOA)

One-day course on legacy migration

Align service-oriented architecture (SOA) planning with business goals

SOA Strategy Workshop

Explore SOA governance, considered to be a main obstacle to successful implementation of SOA

SOA Governance Workshop

SOA Research Areas

A Research Agenda for SOA

SEI Reports and Articles

Web Services and Security—Single Sign-On
(CMU/SEI-2008-TN-026)

Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)—Part 1
(CMU/SEI-2007-TN-016)

Workshop on Model-Driven Architecture and Program Generation (CMU/SEI-2006-TN-031)

Web Services (CMU/SEI-2006-TN-021)

OWL Web Ontology Language for Services (OWL-S)
(CMU/SEI-2006-TN-018)

Governance Issues for a Service-Oriented Architecture

Three Perspectives Required of Service-Oriented Architectures

SMART: The Service-Oriented Migration and Re-use Technique (CMU/SEI-2005-TN-029)

Service-Oriented Architectures as an Interoperability Mechanism

Model-Diven Architecture (CMU/SEI-2005-TN-022)

Journal Articles and Conference Proceedings

Migration of Legacy Components to Service-Oriented Architectures, The DoD Software Tech News

Four Pillars of Service-Oriented Architecture

Common Misconceptions About Service-Oriented Architecture

What COTS and Software Reuse Teach Us about SOA, Proceedings of ICCBSS 2007

Capabilities-Based Cost Analysis: Adapting to a New Paradigm, International Forum on Systems and Software Cost Modeling, November 2006

Systems of Systems Programmatics: Guidelines for Program Managers, Proceedings of the Infotech@Aerospace Conference and Exhibit (AIAA, 2007)

Interoperability Patterns and Systems of Systems Acquisition, Proceedings of the 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (AIAA, 2007)

Developing Realistic Approaches for the Migration of Legacy Components to Service-Oriented Architectures Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Trends in Enterprise Application Architecture (TEAA 2006), post-proceedings forthcoming. For more information, contact the authors at TEAA 2006

SMART: Analyzing the Reuse Potential of Legacy Components in a Service- Oriented Architecture Environment (abstract and first page), Proceedings of AIAA Infotech (2007)

A Framework for Analysis of Mission Survivability within Dynamic Environments (abstract and first page) Proceedings of AIAA Infotech (2007)

Model Based Analysis Reveals System of Systems Risks for NATO, NDIA Science & Technology Conference, 2007

Roles for Maintenance and Evolution of SOA-Based Systems, SOAM workshop, CSMR, April, 2007

The Landscape of Service-Oriented Systems: A Research Perspective for Maintenance and Evolution, SDSOA Workshop, ICSE, 2007

The Acquisition of Joint Programs: The Implications of Interdependencies, Crosstalk, May, 2007

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