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When I started to think about writing this month's column I looked on the Internet for a good way to define service-oriented architecture (SOA). Some of the definitions were interesting, like 'A Service Oriented Architecture is basically a Collection of Services' (www.service-architect... Jun. 4, 2004 Reads: 21,910 |  As enterprises build a critical mass of Web services, they need some way of keeping track of those services. UDDI is an ideal store for such information. Using UDDI's built-in abstractions of business services, binding templates, and tModels referring to interface specifications, UDDI ... Jun. 4, 2004 Reads: 24,332 Replies: 1 | This article describes recent work in a leading investment bank using Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2004 (BizTalk) as an integral component of a service-oriented architecture. I'll describe how BizTalk is used to implement lightweight workflow that builds new services from existing servic... Jun. 4, 2004 Reads: 16,495 | The promises of services-oriented architecture (SOA), enterprise architecture (EA), and information technology (IT) strategies - to change IT from inhibitor to enabler of business flexibility and align IT with business strategies - are remarkably similar. However, for many companies, t... Jun. 4, 2004 Reads: 15,269 Replies: 1 | SOAPtest is a comprehensive testing tool geared to testing Web services. It provides unit, system, and load testing features and support for WSDL, WS-Security, and JMS, including asynchronous messaging. It also supports attachments, access to performance monitors, comparative reporting... Jun. 4, 2004 Reads: 14,808 | As technologists today, we face a uniquely challenging paradox. On the one hand, Web services have created renewed excitement for service-oriented architectures (SOA) as the answer to common integration problems; on the other hand, today's application platforms (J2EE & .NET), used to i... Jun. 4, 2004 Reads: 12,329 Replies: 2 | W.C. Fields once said, 'The practice of keyhole-listening is usually confined to hotels and boarding houses. It is absolutely indefensible to stoop so low. If the transom is not ajar, remember there are plenty of other rooms in the building.' Hackers on the Web can take a similarly ca... Jun. 4, 2004 Reads: 17,170 | Service-oriented architecture, or SOA, is the modern notion of connecting systems together at both the information and service levels. Indeed, enterprises are racing to enable their existing applications to externalize services, as well as build the appropriate integration infrastructu... Jun. 4, 2004 Reads: 15,128 | Integration remains the number one IT priority; fully 60-70% of IT budgets are dedicated to it. Web services makes integrations simpler and cheaper. It makes B2B integrations practical. What businesses demand from a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is dynamic integration capability.... Jun. 4, 2004 Reads: 14,128 Replies: 1 | While widely adopted or standardized security protocols are great for interoperability, a set of SOAP message header elements as well as a few new elements that belong in the message body are outside the scope of the existing mechanism for publishing service descriptions, which is WSDL... Jun. 4, 2004 Reads: 22,596 |
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