Web services standardize the format (XML) and the protocol (SOAP) for application-to-application communication. Such standardization spurs software vendors to create quality applications with focused ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) emerged in the early part of this century as an evolution of distributed computing. Before SOA, services were understood as the end result of the application ...

The Global XML Web Services Architecture (GXA) platform is a term that encompasses a variety of proposed new standards in the area of Web services interoperability. A fair number of big corporate ...

A software developers' work in complex enterprise application environments usually involves spending many hours maintaining existing applications, time that could be spent building new and innovative ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23, 2001 — Microsoft Corp. today presented an architecture for the next generation of XML Web services and published four specifications supporting that architecture. The Global XML ...

The Web's leading standards group on Thursday issued a trio of documents on the architecture of Web services and launched an unprecedented effort to standardize Web services lingo. The architecture ...

Edgewater Technology offers a migration strategy for the straight-through processing of financial transactions utilising Web services technology and shared business objects. The paper describes a ...

As large organizations find increasing difficulty in merging many complex, mission-critical software systems into their established and evolving computing infrastructures, the role of the enterprise ...

Enterprise application integration; enterprise systems integration; legacy data access: thoughts that make most of us cringe. Until now, these terms have meant long hours of frustration, sleepless ...

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