A look at some of the core values espoused by SOA in Thomas Erl's fantastic "Service Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology and Design," 5 years later.

In a SOA world, "dynamic scalability" is an architectural concern that dictates the terms of the design to which it is ascribed.

Discussion on modeling, its advantages, using either UML or ER. A solution using Maven is provided to provide a work flow using ER modeling.

Old 2.0 (I've got more; stop me if you've heard them before.)