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Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.
SOA applications: Why businesses are using SOA, skills architects need
Use of SOA applications has regained popularity. Matt Brasier speculates why, and offers advice about the skills architects will need to use SOA. Continue Reading
NFL statistical data company scores touchdown with API service
NFL data statistics company discusses how it evaluated several API service vendors. Continue Reading
API project planning: Steps to add value in data, app integration
API projects can be less than successful if proper planning isn't performed, according to experts. Continue Reading
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Quiz: What do you know about the service delivery model called PaaS?
Think you know everything about the service delivery model called Platform as a Service? Prove your knowledge of PaaS with this seven-question quiz. Continue Reading
Mobile development: The pros of HTML5, hybrid, native applications
Whether to make use of a hybrid, HTML5 or a native application depends on each specific situation. Continue Reading
SOA governance: Integrating the service repository and registry
Integrating the service registry and repository can help IT professionals with software development and deployment.Continue Reading
Choose the appropriate native application architecture
Considerations for starting a mobile business application project
Beating mistakes: 5 tips to evaluate mobile apps for business
Before a solution and strategy for mobilizing business apps can be finalized, organizations must ask themselves all relevant questions.Continue Reading
Deciding between reuse and new applications
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Measuring the complexity of new services
Leveraging Web resources and weaving in services with SOA
How to properly build the server side of mobility applications
Building desktop versus building mobile applications: More than the device is different.Continue Reading
Web services design patterns, problems and solutions
Why this is the year of the cloud service broker
How Con-way Inc. achieves real-time application integration
Top 10 Q&As: SOA experts get honest about app dev, integration trends
App dev and integration have undergone a slew of changes in recent years -- from the rise of RESTful services to mobile back ends. Hear what top SOA experts have to say.Continue Reading
REST or SOAP: Which offers the most benefits for mobile applications
When choosing between REST or SOAP for mobile apps, it's important to remember there are two major models: native and wrapped mobile web applications.Continue Reading
How application integration maintenance is like taking care of a car
Forrester analyst Randy Heffner offers some best practices and his predictions for software integration management.Continue Reading
Creating an SOA center of excellence for application integration
A well-built SOA Center of Excellence for application integration is crucial to service-oriented architecture. Here is a breakdown of how to build it.Continue Reading
Why SOA applications are easy to migrate to cloud
Learn why SOA applications are the easiest of all apps to migrate to the cloud.Continue Reading
Backend as a Service points to mobile development futures
Mobile middleware is undergoing some changes as Backend as a Service (BaaS) upstarts bring cloud services architecture to back-end processing.Continue Reading
Backend as a Service players, users and trends
Today, Backend as a Service (BaaS) vendors vie with alternatives for mobile apps that must deftly integrate back and front ends.Continue Reading
RESTful services take on a role in health IT infrastructure
Gerald Beuchelt, project software systems engineer at MITRE, discusses the role of RESTful services in building a national health IT infrastructure.Continue Reading
How three SOA integration projects are connecting apps, processes
SOA is a potent middleware connector. At Oracle OpenWorld, project leaders shared their experiences with SOA connecting applications and processes.Continue Reading
The future of financial services may be banking on SOA
After recent difficulties for financial services, one active director suggests that banks invest in modernization via SOA.Continue Reading
Business architecture takes the fore in application portfolio analysis
A shift to business-focused application portfolio analysis is under way, and business architecture is coming to the fore, experts say.Continue Reading
Cloud connectors gain traction in enterprise application integration
More enterprises are turning to cloud connector and data integrator products to meet their enterprise application integration needs, experts say.Continue Reading
HTML5 guide
HTML5 guide: The advent of HTML5 signals a new wave of Web programming methods, and a new slate of standards for enterprise application development.Continue Reading
Service virtualization arises to meet services testing obstacles
Service virtualization allows teams to simulate services before they are truly available. That’s a plus for Agile development and integration testing.Continue Reading
Grady Booch puts application developers at the center of the universe
Will HTML5 applications change enterprise application development?
HTML5 applications should have a very positive impact on enterprise application development, particularly with Web applications and mobile application development.Continue Reading
Gartner analyst: REST APIs gain added importance in application integration design
Architecture changes today center on design of the API, says Gartner. The API increasingly supports REST interfaces.Continue Reading
SOA and EAI in the land of enterprise service bus integration
Like a Swiss Army Knife with many blades and tools, the enterprise service bus (ESB) is many things to many people. It finds use in both EAI and SOA.Continue Reading
Mobile middleware services help connect devices to back ends
Enterprise middleware's role as mediator is being replayed these days in the fast moving world of mobile services development. There, mobile middleware is assuming the mediator's role.Continue Reading
cloud service governance
Cloud services governance is a general term for applying specific policies or principles to the use of cloud computing services. The goal of cloud services governance is to secure applications and data when they are located remotely.Continue Reading
ESB and SOA infrastructure: The role of ESBs in application integration
How important are enterprise service buses (ESBs) to service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the enterprise? Will new efforts to understand ESBs pay off in the long-term? This e-book provides valuable insight on the role of ESBs in application ...Continue Reading
ESB Tutorial
Our ESB tutorial provides the expert advice, definitions, implementation examples, trends and news you need to get started with or optimize the performance of an enterprise service bus.Continue Reading
Gartner Analyst: Rethink the application paradigm - consider business capabilities
'Application' may no longer be the best way to describe what we develop.Continue Reading
Web services standards and requirements
30 year IT veteran Tom Nolle discusses heavyweight WS standards and how they play into application development for new technologies like the iPad.Continue Reading
SOA with .NET & Windows Azure: Realizing Service-Orientation with the Microsoft Platform from Thomas
SOA with .NET & Windows Azure: Realizing Service-Orientation with the Microsoft Platform presents readers with a hands-on review of key issues in applying SOA techniques on the .NET platform. This is another in the series of Prentice Hall ...Continue Reading
Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)
The Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) is a set of standards defining the way in which information is shared among diverse components of large, heterogeneous grid systems.Continue Reading
The impact of HTML5 on Web applications
HTML, the HyperText Markup Language, is an essential part of the Internet experience. HTML5 is one part of what WHATWG sees as essential to the future of Web applications.Continue Reading
Developing applications that work with message-oriented middleware requires mind shift
Message-oriented middleware helps developers create applications with asynchronous functionality increasingly vital to modern distributed applications. But programmers must be ready to cede control over orchestration to make the jump to messaging ...Continue Reading
Distributed data caches speed cloud applications
A new layer of storage, the distributed data cache, may l help make data more accessible and make cloud computing a more appealing option for computation and analysis. Hear why in this podcast.Continue Reading
BPM Tutorial
Our new Business Process Management (BPM) tutorial provides the definitions, tips, news, examples, and products you need to get started with or optimize your use of BPM.Continue Reading
Expert Query: What is the difference between RESTful transactions and Web Services transactions?
REST based transactions assume that only one party to a global transaction accesses the shared state at any given time, sort of like passing a token. The other participants have no knowledge of what's going on at another participant and their ...Continue Reading
On lightweight Java frameworks and service-oriented architecture
Narrower, focused development approaches such as the Spring framework arise as alternatives to full-fledged J2EE. Spring forgoes EJB, employs a Model View Controller and separates the component model from the distribution method.Continue Reading
SOA data services using a common data model
The common data model for data services aligns with the agility promised by service-oriented architecture (SOA) in the Progress Software view.Continue Reading
WSTx (Web Services Transactions)
WSTx (Web Services Transaction) is a set of XML markup specifications designed to permit the use of open, standard protocols for secure, reliable transactions across the Web... (Continued)Continue Reading
Service Data Objects (SDO)
Service Data Objects (SDO) is the name of a specification designed to streamline the processing of SOA (service-oriented architecture) data from diverse sources such as XML documents, relational databases and Web services... (Continued)Continue Reading
WS-Policy (Web Services Policy Framework specifications)
WS-Policy is an abbreviation for the Web Services Policy specifications, members of the core Web Services architecture specifications... (Continued)Continue Reading
service-component architecture (SCA)
Service-component architecture (SCA) is a group of specifications intended for the development of applications based on service-oriented architecture (SOA), which defines how computing entities interact to perform work for each other... (Continued)Continue Reading
Web Services Trust Language (WS-Trust)
Web Services Trust Language (WS-Trust) is a specification that uses the secure messaging mechanisms of WS-Security to facilitate trust relationships in diverse Web service environments... (Continued)Continue Reading
Web Services Trust Language
Web Services Trust Language (WS-Trust) is a specification that uses the secure messaging mechanisms of WS-Security to facilitate trust relationships in diverse Web service environments... (Continued)Continue Reading
Service Integration Maturity Model (SIMM)
The Service Integration Maturity Model (SIMM) is a paradigm developed by IBM that defines the extent to which various services are integrated in a service-oriented architecture (SOA)... (Continued)Continue Reading
service-oriented management
Service-oriented management (SOM) is the operational management of service delivery within a service-oriented architecture (SOA).Continue Reading
service oriented management
Service-oriented management (SOM) is the operational management of service delivery within a service-oriented architecture (SOA).Continue Reading
SPML (Services Provisioning Markup Language)
SPML (Services Provisioning Markup Language) is an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based language that facilitates the exchange of provisioning information among applications and organizations, corporations, or agencies.Continue Reading
management service provider
Also see two related terms, application service provider and storage service provider.Continue Reading
business service provider
A business service provider (BSP) is a company that rents third-party software application packages to their customers.Continue Reading
What are the differences between the WebSphere and Weblogic application server?