Life, the Universe & SOAhttp://blogs.msdn.com/soa/atom.xmlCommunity Server2006-10-31T04:47:00Zhttp://blogs.msdn.com/soa/archive/2006/11/09/an-online-guide-to-wcf.aspx2006-11-09T05:36:00Z2006-11-09T05:36:00ZThe atomic unit of any service oriented architecture [SOA] is a service. The key technology to develop services in Windows is called the Windows Communication Foundation. This is a part of the .NET Framework 3.0 which released on November 6th, 2006. Following is an online guide that should help you get familiar with this exciting new technology called WCF - GET - Installers LEARN - eLearning READ - Documentation USE - Labs...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/soa/archive/2006/11/09/an-online-guide-to-wcf.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1042399" width="1" height="1">rcarunhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rcarun.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/soa/archive/2006/10/31/an-online-guide-to-soa.aspx2006-10-31T08:40:00Z2006-10-31T08:40:00ZMy previous post on What is SOA? was inspired by the first few slides of a detailed slide deck on SOA by David Chappell. The Wikipedia entry for SOA is a good read for a basic introduction to SOA. A brief article introducing SOA and contrasting SOAP services with REST services is also interesting. A formal definition of SOA is provided as part of the OASIS Reference Model for SOA 1.0 . Another formal definition of SOA is provided by CBDI in it's article Understanding Service-Oriented Architecture...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/soa/archive/2006/10/31/an-online-guide-to-soa.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=905611" width="1" height="1">rcarunhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rcarun.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/soa/archive/2006/10/31/what-is-soa.aspx2006-10-31T06:47:00Z2006-10-31T06:47:00ZSOA stands for Service Oriented Architecture. It is the current generation of distributed application architectures. We can look at the evolution of SOA by contrasting it with past generations of distributed application architectures - Terminal-Server where data and business logic were on the same server. Most of the technologies of this era were mainframe [server] centric such as CICS. Client-Server where data and some business logic was on the server and other logic was on the client along with...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/soa/archive/2006/10/31/what-is-soa.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=905510" width="1" height="1">rcarunhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rcarun.aspx