By Linda Terlouw | June 27, 2009

Selecting an SOA Delivery Strategy

Recently I wrote a scientific paper with Joeri Terlouw and Slinger Jansen on “An Assessment Method for Selecting an SOA Delivery Strategy” based on Joeri’s master thesis.
The article can be downloaded from http://www.icris.nl/wp-content/whitepapers/SOAdelivery.pdf, the full master thesis from http://www.icris.nl/wp-content/whitepapers/thesis_joeri_terlouw.pdf.
Let’s have a look at the abstract.
Abstract
Organizations should carefully consider which SOA delivery strategy, for instance top-down [...]

By Linda Terlouw | January 25, 2009

Making a service catalog work: 3 do’s and don’ts

A couple of years ago many organizations were taking their first steps into the world of SOA. Their main concern was which ESB to choose. After deciding whether to use the ESB from Tibco, Cordys, IBM, Oracle, or Microsoft, they thought the hard part was over. They started building web service like crazy and ended [...]

By Linda Terlouw | October 19, 2008

A Business-Oriented Specification for Services

This is the abstract of my article for the CIAO workshop at the CAISE conference. Please let me know if you would like to read the complete article (published by Springer).
By far the best known standard for registering and searching for services is the UDDI. A great weakness of this standard is its technology-driven way [...]

By Linda Terlouw | May 31, 2008

Service interface specification is not enough

Abstracting the functionality a service offers from its implementation is the main idea of SOA. A potential service consumer does not care whether a service is written in Java, .NET, Cobol or is even performed by a human actor as long as he knows what the services does. Many people think an interface specification is [...]


Linda Terlouw works as an IT Architect in the field of SOA for Icris BV . She advises large corporations about the gradual migration towards a service-oriented way of thinking and the use of ESB technology for its technical implementation. Before starting Icris, Linda worked for several large companies like IBM and Ordina. Linda holds both an MSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Business Information Technology from the University of Twente. Currently she is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the Delft University of Technology. The focus of this research is the specification of services working from DEMO models. The research is part of the CIAO! Program.