> SOA Design Patterns is published in 2009, when OASIS SOA RM is known for long enough to understand (accept or deny) that Service Inventory is not a pattern of service orientation, it is a pattern of technology inventory, IMO. > > - Michael
Some of the patterns that are presented in the book are applicable in other areas as well. This is in my opinion no reason for excluding those patterns. And if you would want to exclude such patterns I have a question for you: What patterns in the SOA book is only applicable in the field of SOA? I would be very surprised if you found even a single pattern with that characteristic. Comparing with the GOF patterns book: As you yourself said quite a few of their object-oriented design patterns are not object specific, meaning that they can be applied to other areas than object-oriented development. Do you think that the GOF design patterns book obfuscated the meaning of object-orientation? As I see it the important thing is that the patterns are appicable in the field of SOA and that the patterns are described specifically with SOA in mind. - Herbjörn Wilhelmsen
