"As many businesses, applications, and platforms make the transition to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), significant changes are required in business process design as well as in modeling and solution development. To this end, innovative techniques, tools, and methodologies from a variety of SOA deployments are being developed for use in future solutions. This issue contains eight papers which describe challenges and insights related to modeling, testing, and governance, which have emerged from SOA engagements in a variety of industries."


IBM Systems Journal

			Message from the General Manager, Global Consulting Services and SOA		Robert LeBlanc
			Preface		D. Seidman and J. J. Ritsko	p. 355
			Creating and maintaining coherency in loosely coupled systems		R. High, Jr., G. Krishnan, and M. Sanchez	p. 357
			SOMA: A method for developing service-oriented solutions		A. Arsanjani, S. Ghosh, A. Allam, T. Abdollah, S. Ganapathy, and K. Holley	p. 377
			SOMA-ME: A platform for the model-driven design of SOA solutions		L.-J. Zhang, N. Zhou, Y.-M. Chee, A. Jalaldeen, K. Ponnalagu, R. R. Sindhgatta, A. Arsanjani, and F. Bernardini	p. 397
			Model-driven synthesis of SOA solutions		J. K. Strosnider, P. Nandi, S. Kumaran, S. Ghosh, and A. Arsnajani	p. 415
			The IBM telecommunications service delivery platform		S. Ramanathan, M. Alexander, and G. Kerr	p. 433
			A runtime-adaptable service bus design for telecom operations support systems		I.-Y. Chen, G.-K. Ni, and C.-Y. Lin	p. 445
			Business-process-driven gray-box SOA testing		Z. J. Li, H. F. Tan, H. H. Liu, J. Zhu, and N. M. Mitsumori	p. 457
			Increasing business flexibility and SOA adoption through effective SOA governance		R. Varadan, K. Channabasavaiah, S. Simpson, K. Holley, and A. Allam	p. 473