PUBLIC MARKS from nhoizey with tags soa & "web service"

The widespread adoption of distributed computing has been prognosticated for many years. Finally, a critical mass has been created of both enabling and demand trends that will ultimately realize the promised wave of distributed computing applications. This wave of distributed computing will have a profound impact on businesses and government agencies in many ways - and one area that will be particularly affected is wide-area networks (WAN).

This paper is focusing on fundamental guidelines for versioning schemas and Web services. Six specific principles for versioning Web services are identified

The Principles of Service Design series has been developed to communicate best practices and sample codes when relevant. The first in this multi-paper series, this paper provides fundamental principles for designing and implementing Web services, including a brief review of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts and a detailed discussion of several patterns and anti-patterns that developers can leverage when building Web services. Guidance is applicable to any programming language or platform for which Web services can be developed and deployed