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 ...

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A software developers' work in complex enterprise application environments usually involves spending many hours maintaining existing applications, time that could be spent building new and innovative ...

Is your organization thinking about services and service provider models differently than in the past? If not, perhaps it should be. With all the buzz about Web services and services-oriented ...

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BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) has become one of the most important technologies of SOA (service-oriented architecture) and enables easy and flexible composition of services into business ...

Never before has a set of protocols created so much excitement. But simply chanting the acronyms SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI--the three XML protocols that define Web services--won't make the promised ...

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