Designing our applications as small independent units is the first step towards building a modern infrastructure that is nimble, agile and scalable. Legacy systems still form the backbone of many ...

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 ...

Web services and service-oriented architectures (SOA) have become fundamental components in modern distributed systems, enabling interoperable, flexible and scalable digital ecosystems. However, as ...

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 ...

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A software developers' work in complex enterprise application environments usually involves spending many hours maintaining existing applications, time that could be spent building new and innovative ...

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 ...