Service-oriented architecture (SOA) emerged in the early part of this century as an evolution of distributed computing. Before SOA, services were understood as the end result of the application ...

Note: This is an update on a timeless and timely message originally posted here in July 2009. No SOA, no cloud. For success in deploying cloud services, look no further than SOA. That's the messsage ...

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The IT industry is notorious for pushing the next big thing, and for several years now the primary object of its hype has been SOA, or “service-oriented architecture.” The idea behind this concept is ...

The realities of project deadlines, team skills, and tight budgets mean that building a Web services SOA (service-oriented architecture) is less about choosing a technology than it is about spotting ...

Legacyisn’t planned — it just happens. For many public-sector organizations, the challenges of operating with legacy systems are all too familiar. Legacy environments are expensive and time-consuming ...

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 ...

The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) organizes ...