Note: This is an update on a timeless and timely message originally posted here in July 2009. No SOA, no cloud. For success in deploying cloud services, look no further than SOA. That's the messsage ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

The realities of project deadlines, team skills, and tight budgets mean that building a Web services SOA (service-oriented architecture) is less about choosing a technology than it is about spotting ...

Once, during a tour of a modern auto factory, Eric Newcomer was startled to come upon an aging VAX — the original minicomputer — controlling some machinery. “It was sitting on the assembly line ...