IBM SOA "on the Edge" Gennaro A. Cuomo   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Databases and Service Oriented Architectures (Industrial) Abstract This paper introduces the concept of an SOA edge server and a set of complementary design patterns designed to optimize performance, improve manageability and enable customers to cost effectively deploy SOA applications into complex, missioncritical, high-volume distributed environments. ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery