Thomas Erl Explained

Thomas Erl
Nationality:Canadian
Occupation:Author
Known For:Service-orientation design principles, service design Patterns, cloud computing
Website:Thomas Erl website

Thomas Erl (born 1967) is a Canadian author, and public speaker known for major contributions to the field of service-oriented architecture. Author of eight books on Service Orientation, Erl defined eight widely accepted principles of service orientation.

Biography

Erl is an SOA author, series editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl[1] and editor of the Service Technology Magazine.[2] Erl's primary work has been in laying down the core principles of Service Oriented Computing and service orientation. He also initiated and contributed in creating the catalog of SOA design patterns for building service-oriented systems.

As an entrepreneur, Erl founded SOA School[3] in 2004, Cloud School[4] in 2010, and Arcitura Education Inc.[5] in 2011 as an umbrella corporation for his schools. SOA School established the SOA Certified Professional (SOACP)[6] accreditation program and Cloud School established the Cloud Certified Professional accreditation program. Erl's eight books are used as part of the curriculum for SOA School and Cloud School and Erl helped develop these curricula.

Erl regularly participates in Gartner AADI Summits,[7] the SOA Symposium and Cloud Symposium[8] and the DoD SOA and Semantic Technology Symposium[9] conferences where he delivers the keynote address. Over 100 articles and interviews by Erl have been published in publications, including the Wall Street Journal, SOA World Magazine,[10] InformIT,[11] and CIO Magazine.[12]

Work and publications

Erl is known for defining eight principles of service design for service-orientation. These principles were first published in 2005 in his book Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design[13] and in the 2005 edition of SOA World Magazine,[14] and then became the basis for his book SOA Principles of Service Design,[15] published in 2007.

Based on the principles of service design, Erl filed multiple patents[16] on designing services and service modeling. In 2007, Erl transferred the Intellectual Property of one of his service modeling works to Red Hat[17] for building service modeling tools. Based on the IP, Redhat created the tool Overlord.[18]

Erl contributed to the WS-BPEL 2.0 Working Group Primer[19] specifications, also published by OASIS.

He led a community movement which resulted in the publication of master pattern catalog for SOA.[20] It was a three-year collaborative project from the SOA community producing pattern catalog of 85 patterns that were later compiled in the book, SOA Design Patterns.[21] He also maintains a set of websites focused on SOA glossary,[22] SOA principles,[23] and SOA methodology.[24]

Erl is the founding member of the SOA Manifesto Working Group and co-chairs the Education Committee.[25], the SOA Manifesto[26] had been signed by over 800 signatories and voluntarily translated to ten languages: Chinese, Dutch, French, German,[27] Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tamil, and Hindi. He is also responsible for drafting the Annotated version of the SOA Manifesto.[28]

Since his first publication in 2004, Erl has published seven additional books and is working with other authors on new books for his Prentice Hall series. All books are based on the set of principles and patterns that were initially covered in SOA Principles of Service Design[15] and SOA Design Patterns.[21] Each book has a different angle educating and teaching the concept, the philosophy, and architectural aspects of service orientation in the perspective of the targeted audience. Some of the recently published books focused on SOA governance, cloud computing, and REST. Erl's books, principles, and patterns have been cited by many articles and whitepapers on ACM,[29] IEEE, HL7, OMG, Oracle Technology Network, MSDN, and IBM DeveloperWorks.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl . . June 12, 2011.
  2. June 2011 . LI . Service Technology Magazine . Service Technology Magazine . Arcitura Inc. with Prentice Hall . July 4, 2011.
  3. Web site: SOA School . Global Provider of Vendor-Neutral SOA Training & Certification . June 12, 2011.
  4. Web site: Cloud School . Global Provider of Vendor-Neutral Cloud Computing Training & Certification . June 12, 2011.
  5. Web site: Arcitura - Thomas Erl . Arcitura.com . June 12, 2011.
  6. Web site: SOA & Cloud Computing Certification Programs . . June 12, 2011.
  7. Application Architecture, Development & Integration . https://web.archive.org/web/20120318170140/http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/apn23/webpages/SessionList.aspx?Speaker=1126 . dead . March 18, 2012 . . December 7–9, 2009 . Las Vegas, NV . June 12, 2011.
  8. International SOA & Cloud Computing Conference . SOASymposium . Brazil . April 27–28, 2011 . June 12, 2011.
  9. 3rd Annual DoD SOA & Semantic Technology Symposium . . July 13–14, 2011 . Springfield, VA . June 12, 2011.
  10. Web site: Thomas Erl page . SOA World Magazine . June 12, 2011. Author since June 18, 2004
  11. Web site: InformIT (Thomas Erl page) . . Thomas Erl articles & podcasts . June 12, 2011.
  12. News: Erl . Thomas . Working with SOA Design Patterns: Understanding Pattern Relationships . CIO Enterprise Newsletter . London . September 2, 2008 . June 12, 2011 .
  13. Book: Erl, Thomas . Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design . . Service Oriented Computing Series . August 2, 2005 . 0-13-142898-5 . 8 .
  14. Web site: Exclusive SOA Web Services Journal Briefing – Thomas Erl On SOA . Erl, Thomas . SOA World Magazine . October 29, 2005 . 2011-06-01 .
  15. Book: Erl, Thomas . SOA Principles of Service Design . . Service Oriented Computing Series . July 2007 . 978-0-13-234482-1 .
  16. Web site: Erl . Thomas . Patents by Erl as Inventor . 2011-07-05.
  17. Web site: Erl contributes Service IP to Red Hat . July 24, 2007 . 2011-07-05.
  18. Web site: Overlord tool from Red Hat . Mar 17, 2011 . 2011-07-05.
  19. Web site: WS-BPEL 2.0 Primer . . May 9, 2007 . 2011-06-05 .
  20. Web site: SOA Patterns. A Community Site for SOA Design Patterns . June 10, 2011 .
  21. Book: Erl, Thomas . SOA Design Patterns. . Service Oriented Computing Series . December 2009 . 978-0-13-613516-6 .
  22. Web site: SOA Glossary . Definitions for Service-Oriented Computing Terms . June 10, 2011.
  23. Web site: SOA Principles . An Introduction to the Service-Orientation Paradigm . June 10, 2011.
  24. Web site: SOA Methodology . Mainstream Processes for Service-Oriented Analysis & Design . June 10, 2011.
  25. Web site: SOA Education Committee . An Independent Committee Dedicated to the Pursuit of Educational Excellence in the Field of Service-Oriented Computing . June 10, 2011.
  26. Web site: SOA Manifesto . June 10, 2011 .
  27. Web site: SOA Manifesto German website . June 10, 2011.
  28. Web site: The Annotated SOA Manifesto . June 10, 2011.
  29. Book: ACM page for SOA:Concepts, Technology, & Design . 2005 . . 9780131858589 . June 5, 2011 . ACM citing reference to Thomas Erl's book

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