Voltaire said, 'Before we converse, we should define our terms' actually, he was quoting John Locke. Be that as it may, the terms SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and Web Services / WOA ...

SOA is about more than interoperability. SOA is about more than integration. SOA is more than Web services, but Web services still offers the least path of resistance to SOA No argument there. SOA ...

In a post entitled “The Law of Unintended Consequences,” Geva Perry references an article from InformationWeek describing project failures in the realm of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web ...

Making use of distributed computing, such as service-oriented architecture (SOA) and integrated Web application services, means greater complexity and security design challenges for organizations and ...

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At its public coming-out party alongside Microsoft's original .NET pronouncement, Web services were talked of as a panacea for IT organizations (still) looking for a cheap means of integrating ...

SAP SOA is now a mainstream architectural strategy being followed by SAP customers for providing future proof integration to SAP and non-SAP systems. However, customers are not clear on the SAP SOA ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives promise to cause management challenges for IT managers looking to ensure application performance and exceptional IT service delivery. Network World ...

All enterprises will have to find tools to secure Web services as Web-based languages, such as extensible markup language (XML) will be gradually introduced into system architectures. In a recent ...

Cities and states tap a new IP-centric approach to data sharing. In Chicago, a major hurdle has been convincing agencies that the upfront investment will be worth the savings Web services will ...

Software designers and developers are being challenged to build efficient security measures into their project work as computing is increasingly distributed via Web application services and ...