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In this post I proudly present the Top 100 of Best Software Engineering Books, Ever. I have created this list using four different criteria: 1) number of Amazon reviews, 2) average Amazon rating, 3) number of Google hits and 4) Jolt awards.

Carl and Richard talk SOA with Jim Webber (Global Architecture lead for ThoughtWorks).

Everything's a service, so if you just add your methods (as delegates) to a service container you can call them when you need them from any class that has access to said service container.

Jeremy discusses a real-life example of using agile design in the enterprise and how YAGNI can save you work... if only we'd take the time to think it through.

Highly extensible, publish/subscribe, workflow integrated communications framework for .NET recently made open source by Udi Dahan

Do you really need an Enterprise Service Bus for to implement a Service Oriented Architecture? Is this debate pointless before we know what SOA is?

This is the second part of my presentation in SilverKey Demo Day 2 (SKDD 2) last July, for the first part, Check Here, you will also find the presentation slides & samples

Finally, IBM has agreed with Microsoft on SOA. MS has been patient and sticking to there guns - " SOA is not a Technology\PRODUCT, it is a way of building Systems."

# Part 1- Service Oriented Architecture * Background * Motivations * What is a service ? * Message Exchange Patterns (MEP's) * Industry Standards * Web Standards

Service Broker is a new feature in SQL Server 2005. It is an integrated part of the database engine and it provides queuing and reliable direct asynchronous messaging between SQL Server 2005 instances only. In the future this is planned to be extended to non-SQL Server instances. This article shows ...

Shows how to create a a ASP.NET driven application providing a domainname to ip service for a Windows client application. Gives the architecture to build yoiur own ASP.NET SOA applications

Explanation of the basics of WCF and some code to get you started.

My friend John Evdemon has been writing about the different components of a SOA Reference model. Check the first two posts here and here. Both articles emphasize in the idea of a SOA model based on capabilities that can evolve independently throughout the system lifetime.