 - SOA networking is the use of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) model to enhance the capabilities of networks that use Web services. In SOA networking, events originating
from diverse computers and communications devices are linked immediately and seamlessly to relevant business processes. The ultimate goal is the distribution of intelligence so the network functions as if it were a gigantic, self-contained computer.
One of the most important features of SOA networking is the consolidation of privacy and security services such as authentication, authorization, firewalls, anti-malware programs and encryption. Such consolidation reduces the complexity of network administration, minimizes the risk of vulnerabilities and lowers operational costs. It can allow for a more robust and reliable network than would otherwise be possible. SOA networking also facilitates streamlined testing for compliance with standards and
regulations. Therefore, breaches become less likely and can be corrected in the shortest possible time when they do occur.
An SOA network functions in three layers: - The application layer includes all the software used by businesses and subscribers.
- The interactive services layer ensures constant and reliable communication among all users, devices and applications.
- The systems layer maintains the physical integrity of the network and ensures hardware interconnectivity and compatibility.
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Learn more about XML acceleration, transport and messaging |
| XML Tutorial: This tutorial explains what XML is, how it's used, and where it fits into the world of Web services. |
| Accelerating SOA performance via transport optimization: High performance SOA is an emerging field and two promising, but lesser known techniques in this arena are transport-level optimization and optimized XML processing. |
| Reliable Messaging: This chapter focuses on WS-Reliable Messaging and its potential for becoming the unified interoperability standard for reliable messaging for Web services. |
| Services messaging and mediation: Mediation offers a way to create a more flexible and manageable messaging infrastructure for application integration, making it a powerful set of tools for architects pursuing SOA. |
| XML acceleration, security stay hot in SOA: The market for intelligent network appliances is expected to swell as Web services prototypes move to production. |
| What's new at the W3C: This article discusses how the W3C continues to be the main organization for creation of internationally recognized standards for XML, WSDL, and HTML. |
| Efficient XML Interchange tackles data verbosity: Coming out of the work on Binary XML, Efficient XML Interchange compresses the notoriously verbose data format on top of adding processing efficiency. |
| XML to DDL imports, synchronizes database schemata: Ed Tittel discusses xml2ddl, a data integration and management tool for those using one of the supported target databases. |
| SOA's newest product category, ESB hardware: The enterprise service bus evolved from software, but IBM is now pushing it's DataPower Integration Appliance XI50, a piece of hardware, as an ESB. Could that change the market? |
| Cisco's next-generation AON architecture: What will it mean for Web services?: In this second of a two-part column, Preston Gralla examines how Cisco's AON will impact applications, Web services standards and network architecture. |
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