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

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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach for abstracting enterprise software capabilities as reusable services in order to support more flexible business processes and ideally, more agile ...

Web services and service-oriented architectures (SOA) have become fundamental components in modern distributed systems, enabling interoperable, flexible and scalable digital ecosystems. However, as ...

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 ...

Before there was cloud computing, there was service oriented architecture (SOA). While cloud encompasses implementation and application delivery options, SOA is concerned with the foundation ...

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 ...

How to test service-oriented architectures is no idle question. A failure in a SOA system at Heathrow Airport’s $8.6 billion (U.S.) Terminal 5 caused £1.6 million ($3.2 million U.S.) in losses in one ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is generating a lot of buzz these days. In fact, according to a new AberdeenGroup benchmark report, “Enterprise Service Bus and SOA Middleware,” nine of every 10 ...

How to test service-oriented architectures is no idle question. A failure in a SOA system at Heathrow Airport’s US$8.6 Billion Terminal 5 caused 1.6 British Pounds (about 3.2 million U.S. dollars) of ...

The broadcast industry has a great need for agility and efficiency in dealing with new technologies and business models. Distributing content to HDTVs, mobile phones and software-based media ...