I've just spent the last week immersed in user conferences and briefings, and at every juncture the question of web services and service architectures came up. And every time the issue moved from ...

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 ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been part of the enterprise software market for about two decades, and has recently become a hot topic for developers and implementers--and thus for customers ...

Whether you're an SOA skeptic, cynic, or advocate, there's always confusion around many of the terms and definitions used within this space. As one reader wryly added to my last post on SOA's greatest ...

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Application development managers today are beginning to look at Web services, which promise an easier, more loosely coupled means of connecting applications. At the same time, many of these same ...

SOA may have seemed the savior of bad software architecture and poor development project planning, but the reality is that it’s a complex and difficult venture. Thus, the number of failed SOA projects ...

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