InfoQ has published an excerpt from Thomas Erl’s newest book, SOA Design Patterns, and used the opportunity to interview the author.
Thomas Erl talks about the main benefits of having a pattern catalog, SOA and Web services, the current state of SOA, the difference between SOA and service orientation, and the role of patterns in SOA adoption.
Read the interview, download the sample chapter on "The Architecture of Service-Orientation" (~30MB PDF), or visit the book's web site, soapatterns.org.