We can learn lessons from trading hubs and apply the data to IT integration. See how the ESB removes the distinction among internal and external networks for supply-chain apps.
Disparate systems make business process automation inefficient. Semantic integration of structured, unstructured and process data simplifies implementation of a robust SOA model.
The action is heating up, but it will take a couple of years for security and other management-related standards to gel and make their way into products.
Don Box, one of the inventors of the XML SOAP standard, has been standing up in front of crowds of developers for years now -- educating, entertaining and even sometimes illuminating. We asked what message he wanted to carry forward to them these days. "The message is we have a new way of thinking about software that is called 'service-orientation,'" he said.
You can automate exception logging with one line of client code, control it through an App.config file without recompiling, and use custom publishers to craft cool logging tools.
As technical jobs move offshore, developers should seek out those projects most closely bound to business processes.
Raytheon’s development team uses WRQ’s Verastream to encapsulate host logic and data via Web services.
BEA Systems and The Middleware Company (TMC) have jointly published a set of "blueprints" for developing and implementing applications that use Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs.
BEA Systems' chief exec Alfred Chuang kicked off the ninth annual eWorld user conference in San Francisco this week by officially rolling out his company's Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy, which is based on BEA's vision of a "fluid enterprise" enabled by a set of products and services collectively dubbed "Liquid Computing."
BEA Systems used the stage of its annual user conference in San Francisco to disclose plans to turn its open-source Project Beehive effort over to the Apache Software Foundation.
Grand Central wants to be the switchboard for Service Oriented Architectures - and they just might succeed.
Mike Gunderloy reviews RMTrack 2.0 and Cape Clear SOA Editor 4.8
Web services may not have all the buzz these days, but more and more of them are going into action. For designers who want to start by defining an interface, the Cape Clear SOA Editor packs a lot of power into a free package.
In an industry with no shortage of acronyms, Gartner is touting a new one, SOBA, or Service-Oriented Business Applications.
What exactly should those developing solutions view as “middleware”? The answer lies in an understanding of how vendors are approaching the software stack as a means of implementing SOA.
Longhorn is the next major version of Microsoft's Windows operating system for consumers. These architectural models show how everything fits together.
Ascential Software Corp. has placed a big bet on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). And Bob
Zurek, the firm's vice president of advanced technologies and product management, contends that the bet is already beginning to pay off.
Ensemble offers a contract-based approach to creating an SOA backbone in your enterprise.
Announcement of new support for Web services security across IBM's WebSphere infrastructure and Tivoli identity management middleware.
The next step in Web services may be figuring out how to maintain, update and manage the XML standards-based technology.