Canonical Model, Canonical Schema, and Event Driven SOA

Nick Malik just posted a great article on the importance of:

• Enterprise Canonical Data Model
• Canonical Message Schema
• Event Driven Architecture
• Business Event Ontology

This is the first article I came across explaining the need for a canonical data model and the event-driven mind-set. It strongly relates to my own posting a couple of weeks ago. But I don't even come near the talented way Nick knows how to explain this subject.

My advise is: don't even think about doing SOA without fully understanding Nick's article.

Great Nick, you have all my credits.