Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)


Unifying Data, Documents and Processes

Disparate systems make business process automation inefficient. Semantic integration of structured, unstructured and process data simplifies implementation of a robust SOA model.

Is now the time to manage Web services?

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.

You can't reboot the Internet, and other comments from Don Box

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.

Take your pick: Business processes or Bangalore

As technical jobs move offshore, developers should seek out those projects most closely bound to business processes.

User story: Raytheon on track

Raytheon’s development team uses WRQ’s Verastream to encapsulate host logic and data via Web services.

BEA, The Middleware Co. create SOA blueprints

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.

At BEA eWorld: BEA's SOA vision: 'Liquid Computing'

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."

At BEA eWorld: BEA passes Beehive to Apache

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.

Briefing: Business Services Network

Grand Central wants to be the switchboard for Service Oriented Architectures - and they just might succeed.

A review of RMTrack 2.0 and Cape Clear SOA Editor 4.8

Mike Gunderloy reviews RMTrack 2.0 and Cape Clear SOA Editor 4.8

Review: Cape Clear SOA Editor

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.

ADT at Gartner ITxpo: Analyst sees SOBA emerging as next trend in Web services

In an industry with no shortage of acronyms, Gartner is touting a new one, SOBA, or Service-Oriented Business Applications.

Software applications infrastructure: The “new middleware”?

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.

ZapThink examines Ascential SOA

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.

Briefing: Infravio Ensemble

Ensemble offers a contract-based approach to creating an SOA backbone in your enterprise.