The future of software is service-oriented architecture, according to Charles Stack, president of Flashline. The enterprise application as we know it is dead. Zombie-like, it still lumbers along, ...

BEA will unveil the next version of its WebLogic middleware platform at its annual user conference in May as the first part of its move to a service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA refers to a ...

Compared to Wachovia's Jupiter, Middlesex Savings Bank is Pluto. Not only in size, but in orbital pace: the $3.3 billion mutual savings institution, which doesn't have shareholders breathing down its ...

Every solid SOA-based infrastructure needs good data, and good data can come from service oriented architecture. In a new post, Rob Barry makes the case for bringing together the like-minded ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy adds important business and technical flexibility and control to an SOA-based solution. At runtime, SOA policy provides ready access to change key operating ...

The post of the break was one by Joe McKendrick, who says, “SOA is integration. SOA is not integration. Simple as that.” In essence, he looks at some of the confusion around the value that SOA brings ...

Bob Rhubart's had some interesting follow-up to my last post. "I agree with David's assessment that the strategy of building services and then layering in SOA governance technology is unwise. The ...

Service-oriented architecture or SOA is an architecture style, not a product or a project. It’s an improvement over past architectures in that it captures and uses the best practices of the ...

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

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 ...

I recently read through a large collection of analyst reports on service-oriented architecture (SOA) that have been published in the past year. I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of agreement ...

In a nutshell, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an old — but overlooked — way to design distributed information technology applications so they align with business needs and processes instead of ...