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 ...

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SOA has matured enough now that nearly a hundred design patterns have emerged to help you make a transition to service-orientation. This gentle introduction to design patterns can guide you into sober ...

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 ...

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 ...

Don Buskard, senior vice president and CTO at AXA Financial, a $7.5 billion insurance and financial services company, compares his service-oriented architecture (SOA) to a system of gears: some big ...

More than ever, drug makers need to be fleet and flexible-and they need their software to be the same. Bringing a pharmaceutical or biologic to market takes more than just good science. It takes an ...

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 ...