Some see SOA along technical lines; others from a business perspective. Malte Poppensieker at the University of Trier pondered the true meaning of service-oriented architecture, and I think really ...

Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: IONA Technologies. Unlike earlier open source initiatives, which often trailed commercial development of crucial software infrastructure, today's ...

As I mentioned in my previous article, “Microservice architecture is agile software architecture,” my initial reaction to microservice architecture was to question how it differed from ...

The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) organizes ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy adds important business and technical flexibility and control to an SOA-based solution. At runtime, SOA policy provides ready access to change key operating ...

Among the ways to keep a service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiative on track, forming a center of excellence (COE) is a frequently named option. Indeed, a recent Forrester survey shows that having ...

The worst CIO misunderstanding about service-oriented architecture (SOA) is thinking of it as only another technical initiative for software reuse. Although SOA's reuse potential is real and good, its ...