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  • JavaFX Script as a Web service client

    JavaFX Script is Sun Microsystems' latest entry into the scripting language arena and it holds a lot of potential for Web services client development.

  • SOA quality involves more than testing

    SOA quality is more than just a software initiative, it involves governance and a firm understanding of the SOA lifecycle.

  • Divorcing SOA and Web services

    Jason Bloomberg gives a history of the evolution of SOA and Web services and discusses the common misconception that they are the same thing.

  • SOA at Conjunction Junction

    SOA debates like REST vs. SOAP or Java vs. .NET may be entertaining, but they miss the larger point of service orientation.

  • SOA and Composite Applications

    This article explores the synergy between the concepts and principles associated with composite applications and the service-orientation design paradigm. Further aspects of composite design are dis...

  • How EDA and CEP fit in with SOA

    Complex event processing (CEP) has been around for a while and its combination with SOA often gets referred to as event-driven architecture (EDA). Daniel Rubio investigates how much merit there is ...

  • Heterogeneity and SOA

    Getting a wide range of technologies to work together is main challenge for the modern IT professional and there's no small amount of work being done to make that task easier.

  • The Concordia Project and XML security interoperability

    Web services security and identity management has become a convoluted arena. Seeking to find common ground for competing approaches, the Concordia Project has entered the fray.

  • The SOA requirement for data integration

    Michael Meehan discusses what fundamentals have been overlooked in implementing SOA and related content that will be discussed on SearchWebServices.com this week.

  • The universal translator in SOA and EDA – a canon

    SOA may involve large amounts of technology, but it should be able to "talk" business according to Con-way Inc. lead enterprise architect Maja Tibbling. She suggests developing a canonical business...

  • Eclipse and SOA infrastructure

    The Eclipse Foundation's already massive amount of freely available technology is about to increase at the end of the month, particularly in the SOA arena.

  • Operating system virtualization and Web services

    Web services development and operating systems virtualization may be two different types of abstraction, but virtualization techniques look like they can have positive impact in the Web services ar...

  • XQuery 1.0: A long time coming, now what?

    While the XQuery 1.0 specification may have taken years to get finalized, major database engines already support it. XML guru Ed Tittel notes that there's a massive reservoir of available informati...

  • The governance, quality, management trifecta: Making lo

    Ronald Schmelzer discusses the connections between SOA governance, quality and management in making the illusion of loose coupling a reality.

  • Ruby on Rails – preparing for an enterprise invas

    Ruby on Rails has been popular with developers, but now management tools and IDEs for RoR are emerging, which could propel the framework deeper into the enterprise.

  • The REST of the SOA story

    While service-oriented architecture is often associated with the SOAP protocol, REST may offer a simpler, more elegant solution.

  • CAM: A Swiss Army knife for XML structures

    Dealing with the performance bottleneck of constantly shifting XML validation and requirements inside your SOA? Then Content Assembly Mechanism might be for you.

  • 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?

  • Mashing the phone

    Jason Bloomberg discusses how service-oriented best practices will impact every aspect of business, from consumer to management.

  • 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.