I've started a new weblog for exploring design patterns and their applicability to Web services. I'm armed with three good books for my journey- the classic Design Patterns book by the gang-of-four (Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides), Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies, Second Edition by Deepak Alur, Dan Malks and John Crupi and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler. Hopefully these Web service patterns should translate into the .NET world too.
My intention is to see which of these pattens are applicable to Web services (and how) and also to explore new patterns of usage.
At first glance, there are three patterns that may apply (below), and I'll be exploring these in the months to come: