Many organizations' efforts to move to SOA have been mired by organizational issues, by conflicting vendor messages, and by architectures that may amount to little more than Just a Bunch of Web ...

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Of all the patterns in the SOA design patterns catalog there is perhaps no other as simple to understand yet as difficult to apply in practice as Canonical Schema. There are also few patterns that ...

Enterprise-wide harmonization is a desirable and ideal target state that fully supports pretty much everything SOA and service-orientation stand for. For those that have achieved such a state, bless ...

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At issue: Direct authentication is impractical to use when consumers need to access a large number of services within an enterprise. Brokered authentication effectively solves that problem by creating ...

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 ...

Web services and service-oriented architectures (SOA) have become fundamental components in modern distributed systems, enabling interoperable, flexible and scalable digital ecosystems. However, as ...

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I was a hands-on developer and chief technology officer during the days of object-oriented programming, three-tiered web platforms, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and hosting on virtual servers ...