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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Specialized Messaging Patterns

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1.0 Thesis .....................................................................................1 2.0 An Introduction to Service Oriented Architecture.........................................................................2 2.1 Requirements for SOA ....................................................2 2.2 A Reference Model for Service Oriented Architecture.........................................................................4 2.3 Decomposing the Interaction Model .......................5 3.0 A Reference Architecture for Service Oriented Architecture.........................................................................6 3.1 Service Tier ..........................................................................7 3.2 Client Tier.............................................................................8 3.3 Architectural Conventions spanning multiple tiers .......................................................................9 3.4 Events ................................................................................. 10 3.5 Objects............................................................................... 10 3.6 Architectural Patterns ...................................................11 4.0 Data and Message Exchange Patterns for Enterprise SOA..................................................................11 4.1 Request-Response ..........................................................11 4.2 Request-Response via Service Registry (or Directory) .....................................................................11 4.3 Subscribe-Push............................................................... 12 4.4 Probe and Match............................................................ 12 4.5 Patterns for RIAs............................................................. 13 4.6 Data paging...