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Features

• Chapter of the Week: Web Services: A Realization of SOA

  This chapter, excerpted from Web Services Platform Architecture focuses on Web services as a realization of the service-oriented platform and introduces the specifications that add to it.  Continue Reading

• Chapter of the Week: "Web Services Security"

  This chapter, excerpted from Addison Wesley's Understanding SOA with Web Services, describes the various threats and challenges that need to be guarded against, summarizes the basic Web services security technologies and provides detail on ...  Continue Reading

• Chapter of the Week: "XML Performance and Size"

  There are a variety of special issues that affect all areas of XML. This chapter focuses on XML performance and size and explains how to work with these shortcomings within a high-performance environment.  Continue Reading

• ZapThink 2004 SOA retrospective and looking ahead to 2005

  2004 SOA retrospective and looking ahead to 2005  Continue Reading

• The SOA talent squeeze

  ZapThink predicts a dramatic surge in the demand for SOA consulting in 2005.  Continue Reading

• Client-side Java strikes back

  This tip gives an overview of client-side Java and the market landscape, then discusses how/why desktop Java is becoming an extremely attractive alternative to Windows.  Continue Reading

• Web Services Security School: Table of contents

  Get the class syllabus here. Learn more about your professor and see which lessons are coming up.  Continue Reading

• Will binary XML solve XML performance woes?

  XML's blatant inefficiency is one oft-cited downside to anything XML-based. One emerging approach for improving the performance of XML processing treats XML as a binary format.  Continue Reading

• SOA governance: Reengineering IT governance

  There is a common misconception that SOA governance is governance of an SOA.  Continue Reading

• Outsourcing, SOA, and the industrialization of IT

  The combination of the SOA and outsourcing trends reflects the maturation of the IT industry.  Continue Reading

• How loose is your coupling?

  This article sheds some light on some common misunderstandings about coupling. How loosely coupled an interaction should be is simply a question of using the right tool for the job  Continue Reading

• Software's dirty little secret

  Service Orientation is one of the key mechanisms for leaving the world of low-tech, low-quality software behind, and achieving the goals of high-tech software.  Continue Reading

• Who is the SOA Buyer?

  The combination of the SOA and outsourcing trends reflects the maturation of the IT industry.  Continue Reading

• Fast Guide: Web services security

  Securing Web services is inherently challenging. Unlike traditional Web page interfaces, Web services directly expose core application logic, significantly increasing an organization's risk profile. We've compiled these resources to help you better ...  Continue Reading

• Integrating rich clients with J2EE

  J2EE is commonly used to power HTML Web apps, but HTML has limits. By adopting rich client technology, customers get deployment advantages along with rich local desktop computing.  Continue Reading