Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: IONA Technologies. Unlike earlier open source initiatives, which often trailed commercial development of crucial software infrastructure, today's ...

As I mentioned in my previous article, “Microservice architecture is agile software architecture,” my initial reaction to microservice architecture was to question how it differed from ...

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 worst CIO misunderstanding about service-oriented architecture (SOA) is thinking of it as only another technical initiative for software reuse. Although SOA's reuse potential is real and good, its ...

Organizations often are challenged to get the most value out of their service-oriented systems. Whether they are implementing an enterprise application integration (EAI) solution or developing a ...

With SOA right now, I think the big picture here is pretty clear about the notions of interfaces, the notion of true distributed computing, the notions of being able to say if Im interacting with you ...

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

Among the ways to keep a service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiative on track, forming a center of excellence (COE) is a frequently named option. Indeed, a recent Forrester survey shows that having ...