: Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) are a promising means to integrate heterogeneous systems, but virtually no technology -neutral approach to holistically understand SOAs exists. We tackle this problem by introducing a survey of technology -independent patterns that are relevant for SOAs, and are working towards a formalised pattern-based reference architecture model to describe SOA concepts.
Uwe Zdun, Carsten Hentrich, Wil M. P. van der Aals