For Web services to succeed in extending the remarkably successful "document" Web into a "trusted business services" Web that reliably spans the globe, designers must apply service-oriented security ...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach for abstracting enterprise software capabilities as reusable services in order to support more flexible business processes and ideally, more agile ...

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I recently had the pleasure of watching Nick Gall give his take on something he describes as Web-Oriented Architecture or WOA. There are a lot of ways to view Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and ...

A software developers' work in complex enterprise application environments usually involves spending many hours maintaining existing applications, time that could be spent building new and innovative ...

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Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is generating a lot of buzz these days. In fact, according to a new AberdeenGroup benchmark report, “Enterprise Service Bus and SOA Middleware,” nine of every 10 ...

Internet transactions, business-to-business systems, peer-to-peer processes, and real-time workflows are too dynamic and too complex to be modeled by traditional sequential-processing methods.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the IT industry’s latest attempt to promote the concept of component reusability in the development, integration, deployment and maintenance of enterprise ...

Designing our applications as small independent units is the first step towards building a modern infrastructure that is nimble, agile and scalable. Legacy systems still form the backbone of many ...