Voltaire said, 'Before we converse, we should define our terms' actually, he was quoting John Locke. Be that as it may, the terms SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and Web Services / WOA ...

Web services—the foundation of service-oriented architecture (SOA)—are self-contained, modular applications that one can describe, publish, locate, and invoke over a network. Web services operate at a ...

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 ...

I recently had the pleasure of watching Nick Gall give his take on something he describes as Web-Oriented Architecture or WOA. There are a lot of ways to view Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and ...

Cities and states tap a new IP-centric approach to data sharing. In Chicago, a major hurdle has been convincing agencies that the upfront investment will be worth the savings Web services will ...

In a post entitled “The Law of Unintended Consequences,” Geva Perry references an article from InformationWeek describing project failures in the realm of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

If you were the CIO or chief architect at a company and I told you that you are already running multiple Web services, how would you react? Pleasantly surprised? Shocked? Would you be upset? Many ...

In the first part of this article, we provided an overview of the value BP will derive from a broad service-oriented architecture (SOA) program as well as the issues that exist today in realizing this ...

The Object Management Group today announced the program for its Service Oriented Architecture, Model Driven Architecture and Web Services Workshop: Integrating the Enterprise and Beyond. Sponsored by ...