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The next article will discuss components, composition operators, and contracts for EDA and its business network. Until then, consider the broad relationships between EDA and SOA elements in Figure 11.

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Figure 11: SOA vs. EDA

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Acknowledgment: This research was supported in part by NSF Grant CCR-0312778 called "Information Infrastructures for Crisis Management."

Bibliography

Indigo: http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/understanding/pillars/Indigo/default.aspx

Architecture Center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/default.aspx

Web Services Training: www.quickstart.com [Course 2524]

Sense & Respond: www.ispheres.com

IBM SOA: http://www-130.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/

W3C: www.w3c.org

About the Authors

K. Mani Chandy is the Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology, where he has been a professor since 1989, twice holding the office of Executive Officer of the Computer Science Department. Dr. Chandy does research in distributed computing. He has published three books and over a hundred papers on distributed computing, verification of concurrent programs, parallel programming languages, and performance models of computing and communication systems.

Jonathan Lurie is a newly minted doctoral student at the California Institute of Technology, prior to which he toiled as a "professional software professional" whilst acquiring a bad case of acronym certification measles: MCT, MCSD, MCSE, MCDBA, MCAD.NET, MCSD.NET, MSF, Java Certified Developer, and IBM XML Certified Developer. He currently researches an area of Computer Science known as Sense & Respond at the Infospheres Research Group.

Robert Alexander is a creative graphic designer who delivered the images for this article. Robert can be reached at ralexander@codeconference.com.

All images are the property of Jonathan Lurie.