Organizations often are challenged to get the most value out of their service-oriented systems. Whether they are implementing an enterprise application integration (EAI) solution or developing a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach for abstracting enterprise software capabilities as reusable services in order to support more flexible business processes and ideally, more agile ...

Service-oriented data transmission operates on an “on-demand” basis—a sender only transmits data when at least one receiver in the network needs this data, avoiding unnecessary data loading on the ...

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