I'm looking into best practices for design-time governance of services. Does anyone have any links or whitepapers they can suggest? Thank you!

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Comment by Sunny Wear on May 28, 2009 at 7:18am
Hi Joshua,
Thank you for the link. Want to join the SOA Governance Code Town group? Let's collaborate.

Sunny
Comment by Joshua Davis on May 27, 2009 at 5:03pm
Sunny,

I am a big fan of Thomas Erl and his set of books. His book site is here: http://www.soabooks.com/. If you are interested in some further discussion about SOA Design Time Governance I'd be glad to be a part of it.
Comment by Sunny Wear on May 27, 2009 at 7:15am
Hi Benneth, Thank you for this suggestion. I downloaded it and enjoyed the read. I especially like how they touch on the SOA Center of Excellence (CoE). I hope to make our Code Town SOA Governance group our own CoE! :-)
Comment by Benneth Christiansson on May 27, 2009 at 2:21am
Hi Sunny Wear not a white paper but an excellent refcard.
http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/soa-governance?oid=hom7948

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