Service-oriented architectures (SOA) have become the de facto architecture of choice for enabling agile business processes via reuseable, coarse-grained business services. Business services are integrated via exposed technical interfaces that increasingly support Web services and XML s...

Blue Titan Software, Inc., the leading provider of service-oriented infrastructure software, and Wipro Technologies Inc., a leader in providing IT solutions and services, today announced a strategic technology alliance to bring a joint service-oriented infrastructure solution to global...

This article discusses the advantages of implementing shared 'data services' to deliver on the true promise of service-oriented architectures - rapid application development through reusable components without sacrificing fast, accurate enterprise data access.

Despite the magnitude of a migration to a service-oriented platform, the continuing uncertainty of critical WS-* standards, and the often thundering impact of large-scale SOA deployments, now is the time to start considering the move.

In many respects, SOA is an evolution of the fundamental tenets governing component-based development (CBD). It also represents a quantum leap in bringing business and information technology into closer alignment through a set of SOA services grounded in business goals in support of bu...

Service-oriented srchitecture (SOA) is an often-used term in today's IT organizations. Some surveys have shown that half of all Fortune 500 companies are actively pursuing an SOA in some form or another, many instituting it as their fundamental design concept.

At JavaOne in San Francisco today, Sun Microsystems announced Project Kitty Hawk, a new initiative encompassing expanded service-oriented architecture (SOA)-enabling capabilities in Sun products including the Sun Java Enterprise System and Sun Java Studio Enterprise developer tools, as...

Service-oriented architecture, or SOA, is the modern notion of connecting systems together at both the information and service levels. Indeed, enterprises are racing to enable their existing applications to externalize services, as well as build the appropriate integration infrastructu...

As technologists today, we face a uniquely challenging paradox. On the one hand, Web services have created renewed excitement for service-oriented architectures (SOA) as the answer to common integration problems; on the other hand, today's application platforms (J2EE & .NET), used to i...

The promises of services-oriented architecture (SOA), enterprise architecture (EA), and information technology (IT) strategies - to change IT from inhibitor to enabler of business flexibility and align IT with business strategies - are remarkably similar. However, for many companies, t...

'When all said and done, SOA is just an invocation mechanism,' says systems engineer Ramesh Loganathan in an opinion piece on the service-oriented architecture and its current hold on the attention of i-technologists. 'Much like any RPC (simple Dec-RPC or the more evolved RMI or CORBA,...

Chances are you've heard the term service-oriented architecture (SOA). It describes a software architecture in which reusable services are deployed onto application servers and then consumed by clients in different applications or business processes. If you've tried to find information...

A new Web site dedicated to XML messaging and interoperability has just been launched, courtesy of the government of Ireland, which has established an agency mandated to procure and build the Public Services Broker (PSB) - an integrated set of processes, systems and procedures designed...

Father James Keller, the founder of a religious order called The Christophers and a popular religious television and radio personality in his day, wrote an amusing story about Mozart. He said, 'A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked ...

With the emergence of Web services into the mainstream the developer has to learn how to architect and build service-oriented systems. While service orientation isn't a new concept, the rapid convergence of the industry on Web services technology has brought the concept of service-orie...

To quote Peter Drucker: 'The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the 50-fold increase in productivity of the manual worker in manufacturing.

Service-oriented architecture is an attractive vehicle for attaining greater business agility. It has the potential to dramatically improve productivity and increase shareholder value with a comparatively modest (though far from dismissible) incremental investment in information te...

Since the dawn of the software industry, technology has been evolving at a rapid rate to meet business needs. We have now entered a new stage in evolution with the adoption of Web services, which will only bring a quantum leap in productivity for businesses if a number of key character...

Over many decades, IT organizations have invested billions of dollars in business logic and data housed in mainframes and within the CICS environment. Despite the age of these systems, the mainframe and CICS continue to provide the most scalable, reliable, and cost-effective platform u...

A growing number of organizations are adopting a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to their IT infrastructure because they want to enhance their ability to change the enterprise application landscape cost effectively and rapidly, in support of changing business requirements....

As Web services technology becomes pervasive, the beta release of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4, which focuses primarily on Web services, flags a milestone in the Web services developer community. Sun's J2EE Reference Implementation (RI) helps developers to easily understand the...

Prior to the development of Web services, many enterprises were faced with very complex and expensive integration projects that were intended to tie a variety of enterprise business applications together with the goal of providing a seamless integrated business application platform ins...