Thomas Erl was born on 1967 and is a Canadian author, and public speaker known for major contributions to the field of service-oriented architecture.
12 Facts About Thomas Erl
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Author of eight books on Service Orientation, Erl defined eight widely accepted principles of service orientation.
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Thomas Erl initiated and contributed in creating the catalog of SOA design patterns for building service-oriented systems.
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Thomas Erl regularly participates in Gartner AADI Summits, the SOA Symposium and Cloud Symposium and the DoD SOA and Semantic Technology Symposium conferences where he delivers the keynote address.
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Over 100 articles and interviews by Thomas Erl have been published in publications, including the Wall Street Journal, SOA World Magazine, InformIT, and CIO Magazine.
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Thomas Erl is known for defining eight principles of service design for service-orientation.
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In 2007, Thomas Erl transferred the Intellectual Property of one of his service modeling works to Red Hat for building service modeling tools.
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Thomas Erl contributed to the WS-BPEL 2.0 Working Group Primer specifications, published by OASIS.
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Thomas Erl led a community movement which resulted in the publication of master pattern catalog for SOA.
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Thomas Erl maintains a set of websites focused on SOA glossary, SOA principles, and SOA methodology.
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Thomas Erl is the founding member of the SOA Manifesto Working Group and co-chairs the Education Committee.
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Thomas Erl is responsible for drafting the Annotated version of the SOA Manifesto.