Software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools and platforms can help independent software vendors take advantage of the Internet browser as a standard for application distribution.
The W3C grants Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases. (Article courtesy of Redmond Developer News.)
Robert Carr, Keep and Share's CEO, talks about the Web as a delivery mechanism for software and services. (Article courtesy of Redmond Developer News.)
A number of companies released new products last week, supporting application development in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Here are some of those announcements to date.
Open CSA group unites to speed application development through SOA specs.
IBM officials position CICS 3.2 as the no-brainer hub for an organization’s -- any organization’s -- service-oriented architecture.
A survey of companies developing service-oriented architecture solutions found that it hasn't been easy to do, although most 'best-in-class' companies have realized returns on investment from SOA infrastructure.
Software AG is expected to gain a strong 'foothold' in the North American SOA market with the acquisition.
A test kit from Tibco that helps debug code used in asynchronous Web development has been released as an open-source tool.
SOA Software and Red Hat are teaming up to give customers deploying Web services on the open-source JBoss application server a set of tools for governance, security, management and mediation.
A JavaScript-related problem has been found in AJAX-style applications, but it can be secured at the server side.
Software companies continue to build alliances to further SOA (service-oriented architecture) environments at the enterprise level. Here are a few announcements to date.
Open-source Java application server offers better support for SOA and Web 2.0 applications.
The pending acquisition will add distributed data caching capability and strengthen Oracle's SOA and data management middleware stack.
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